Few social science concepts have been scrutinized as carefully as ‘democracy’, and measurement efforts abound. Yet, existing democracy measures typically pertain to the national level, despite the importance of, and ample variation in, democracy at the regional and local levels. Moreover, most measures do not differentiate well between countries towards the more democratic end of the scale. In this paper, we introduce and discuss measures intentionally developed to capture variation in democracy levels – at the national, regional, and local levels -- even among “very democratic” regimes. We discuss difficulties with and guidelines for how to build comprehensive democracy concepts that incorporate relevant features and practices that may vary in such contexts. Next, we discuss how such concepts can be measured in practice and how to mitigate the different challenges with doing so, including data collection for hard-to-measure indicators, properly scaling indicators without clear maximum values, and aggregating varied indicators in a manner that reflects the conceptual logic. To illustrate these points, we draw on recent efforts to measure five democracy dimensions for Norway across 2015-2021. These efforts stem from a larger assessment of Norwegian democracy, aiming to identify its relative strengths as well as areas with ample room for improvement, and recent positive and negative trends. We thereafter discuss remaining validity and reliability issues with the 15 indices – five each at the national, regional, and local levels – before assessing the potential for (and pitfalls related to) extending and adapting these indices to measure democracy in other contexts.