The Political Diagnostic Toolkit (PDT) dashboard provides country-level, early-warning diagnostics on political and institutional stability in strategically significant states. The dashboard translates complex governance and political data into actionable indicators that help policymakers, researchers, and practitioners identify emerging risks of democratic breakdown, political instability, or institutional capture.

Each country profile presents a Composite Political Risk Score (CPRS) derived from five core pillars: executive dominance, institutional neutrality, elite network structure, electoral integrity, and informal governance. Rather than describing political conditions after crises occur, the PDT dashboard highlights gradual institutional stress patterns that historically precede coups, democratic erosion, or abrupt regime change.

The dashboard is designed to support evidence-based decision-making by U.S. institutions, international partners, and private-sector actors by linking political risk diagnostics directly to U.S. strategic exposure, including foreign assistance, security cooperation, and commercial interests. PDT is intended as a diagnostic and early-warning tool not a predictive model and is continuously updated as new data becomes available.