Varieties of Democracy Dataset - Version 8
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V-Dem Institute
Lisa Gastaldi
Josefine Pernes
Staffan I. Lindberg
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Michael Coppedge
- University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
John Gerring
- University of Texas at Austin
Carl Henrik Knutsen
- University of Oslo
Staffan I. Lindberg
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Svend-Erik Skaaning
- Aarhus University
Michael Coppedge
- University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
John Gerring
- University of Texas at Austin
Carl Henrik Knutsen
- University of Oslo
Staffan I. Lindberg
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Svend-Erik Skaaning
- Aarhus University
Jan Teorell
- Lund University
David Altman
- Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Michael Bernhard
- University of Florida, Department of Political Science
M. Steven Fish - University of California-Berkeley, Department of Political Science
Agnes Cornell
- Lund University
Sirianne Dahlum
- University of Oslo
Haakon Gjerløw
- University of Oslo
Adam Glynn - Emory University, Department of Political Science
Allen Hicken
- University of Michigan
Joshua Krussel - University of Gothenburg
Anna Lührmann
- University of Gothenburg
Kyle L. Marquardt
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
Kelly McMann
- Case Western Reserve University
Valeriya Mechkova
- University of Gothenburg
Juraj Medzihorsky
- University of Gothenburg
Moa Olin - University of Gothenburg
Pamela Paxton
- University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Pemstein
- North Dakota State University
Josefine Pernes - University of Gothenburg
Johannes von Römer - University of Gothenburg
Brigitte Seim - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rachel Sigman - Postgraduate Naval School
Natalia Stepanova - University of Gothenburg
Jeffrey Staton - Emory University, Department of Political Science
Aksel Sundström
- University of Gothenburg
Eitan Tzelgov
- University of East Anglia
Yi-ting Wang
- National Cheng Kung University
Tore Wig - University of Oslo
Steven Wilson
- The University of Nevada at Reno
Daniel Ziblatt - Harvard University
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University of Gothenburg
- V-Dem Institute
Description
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. We provide a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between five highlevel principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collects data to measure these principles.
V-Dem draws on theoretical and methodological expertise from its worldwide team to produce data in the most objective and reliable way possible. Approximately half of the indicators in the V-Dem dataset are based on factual information obtainable from official documents such as constitutions and government records. The other half consists of evaluative indicators on topics like political practices and compliance with de jure rules. On such issues, typically five experts provide ratings. V-Dem works closely with leading social science research methodologists and has developed a state of the art Bayesian Item Response Theory measurem
V-Dem draws on theoretical and methodological expertise from its worldwide team to produce data in the most objective and reliable way possible. Approximately half of the indicators in the V-Dem dataset are based on factual information obtainable from official documents such as constitutions and government records. The other half consists of evaluative indicators on topics like political practices and compliance with de jure rules. On such issues, typically five experts provide ratings. V-Dem works closely with leading social science research methodologists and has developed a state of the art Bayesian Item Response Theory measurement model that, to the extent possible, minimizes coder error and addresses issues of comparability across countries and over time. V-Dem also draws on the team’s academic expertise to develop theoretically informed techniques for aggregating indicators into mid- and high-level indices. In this sense, V-Dem is at the cutting edge of developing new and improved methods of social science measurement. Show less..
Language
Unit of analysis
Population
Countries
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1789-12-31 – 2017-12-31
Variables
4641
Number of individuals/objects
26537
Data format / data structure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Oceania
Lowest geographic unit
Country
Highest geographic unit
Country
Responsible department/unit
V-Dem Institute
Identifiers
Research area
Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Political science (excluding public administration studies and globalisation studies) (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Wilson, Matthew Charles, and Josef Woldense. "Contested or established? A comparison of legislative powers across regimes." Democratization 26, no. 4 (2019): 585-605.
Teorell, Jan, Michael Coppedge, Staffan Lindberg, and Svend-Erik Skaaning. "Measuring polyarchy across the globe, 1900–2017." Studies in Comparative International Development 54, no. 1 (2019): 71-95.
Povitkina, Marina, and Ketevan Bolkvadze. "Fresh pipes with dirty water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies." European Journal of Political Research (2019).
Maerz, Seraphine F. "Simulating pluralism: the language of democracy in hegemonic authoritarianism." Political Research Exchange (2019).
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2019.1605834
Wilson, Matthew Charles. "A Closer Look at the Limits of Consociationalism." Comparative Political Studies (2019): 1-34.
van Ham, Carolien, and Staffan Lindberg. "Reconsidering African Elections." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 25 Jun. 2019; Accessed 3 Sep. 2019. https://oxfordre-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-861.
van Ham, Carolien, and Holly Ann Garnett. "Building impartial electoral management? Institutional design, independence and electoral integrity." International Political Science Review 40, no. 3 (2019): 313-334.
Lührmann, Anna, and Staffan I. Lindberg. "A third wave of autocratization is here: what is new about it?." Democratization (2019): 1-19.
Lührmann, Anna, Valeriya Mechkova, Sirianne Dahlum, Laura Maxwell, Moa Olin, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Rachel Sigman, Matthew C. Wilson, and Staffan I. Lindberg. "State of the world 2017: autocratization and exclusion?." Democratization 25, no. 8 (2018): 1321-1340.
Blackwell, Matthew, and Adam N. Glynn. "How to make causal inferences with time-series cross-sectional data under selection on observables." American Political Science Review 112, no. 4 (2018): 1067-1082.
Marquardt, Kyle L., and Daniel Pemstein. "IRT models for expert-coded panel data." Political Analysis 26, no. 4 (2018): 431-456.
Sigman, Rachel, and Staffan I. Lindberg. "Democracy for all: Conceptualizing and measuring egalitarian democracy." Political Science Research and Methods 7, no. 3 (2019): 595-612.
Lueders, Hans, and Ellen Lust. "Multiple measurements, elusive agreement, and unstable outcomes in the study of regime change." The Journal of Politics 80, no. 2 (2018): 736-741.
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