Varieties of Democracy Dataset - Version 9
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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, Department of Government
Carl Henrik Knutsen
- University of Oslo
Staffan I. Lindberg
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Jan Teorell
- Lund University
Michael Coppedge
- University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
John Gerring
- University of Texas at Austin, Department of Government
Carl Henrik Knutsen
- University of Oslo
Staffan I. Lindberg
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
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
Adam Glynn - Emory University, Department of Political Science
Allen Hicken
- University of Michigan
Anna Lührmann
- University of Gothenburg
Kyle L. Marquardt
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
Kelly McMann
- Case Western Reserve University
Pamela Paxton
- University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Pemstein
- North Dakota State University
Brigitte Seim - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rachel Sigman - Postgraduate Naval School
Svend-Erik Skaaning
- Aarhus University
Jeffrey Staton - Emory University, Department of Political Science
Steven Wilson
- The University of Nevada at Reno
Agnes Cornell
- Lund University
Lisa Gastaldi - University of Gothenburg
Haakon Gjerløw
- University of Oslo
Nina Ilchenko - University of Gothenburg
Joshua Krussel - University of Gothenburg
Laura Maxwell - University of Gothenburg
Valeriya Mechkova
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Juraj Medzihorsky
- University of Gothenburg
Josefine Pernes - University of Gothenburg
Johannes von Römer - University of Gothenburg
Natalia Stepanova - University of Gothenburg
Aksel Sundström
- University of Gothenburg
Eitan Tzelgov
- University of East Anglia
Yi-ting Wang
- National Cheng Kung University
Tore Wig - University of Oslo
Daniel Ziblatt - Harvard University
Show less..Research principal
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 high-level 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 offcial 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 measure
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 offcial 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..
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Unit of analysis
Population
Countries
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1789-12-31 – 2018-12-31
Variables
3888
Number of individuals/objects
26834
Data format / data structure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Oceania
Geographic description: Geographical coverage is 202 countries.
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)
Lührmann, Anna, Sandra Grahn, Richard Morgan, Shreeya Pillai, and Staffan I. Lindberg. "State of the world 2018: democracy facing global challenges." Democratization (2019): 1-21.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2019.1613980
Pemstein, Daniel, Kyle L. Marquardt, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Joshua Krusell, and Farhad Miri. "The V-Dem measurement model: latent variable analysis for cross-national and cross-temporal expert-coded data." V-Dem Working Paper 21 (2018).
Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Joshua Krusell, Juraj Medzihorsky, Josefine Pernes, Svend-Erik Skaaning et al. "The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy”(V-Dem)." Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique 143, no. 1 (2019): 107-133.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106319854989
Teorell, Jan, and Staffan I. Lindberg. "Beyond democracy-dictatorship measures: a new framework capturing executive bases of power, 1789–2016." Perspectives on Politics 17, no. 1 (2019): 66-84.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592718002098
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.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-018-9268-z
Lührmann, Anna, Marcus Tannenberg, and Staffan I. Lindberg. "Regimes of the World (RoW): Opening New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Regimes." Politics & Governance 6, no. 1 (2018).
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.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.6
Sundström, Aksel, Pamela Paxton, Yi-Ting Wang, and Staffan I. Lindberg. "Women’s political empowerment: A new global index, 1900–2012." World Development 94 (2017): 321-335.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.016
Bernhard, Michael, Dong-Joon Jung, Eitan Tzelgov, Michael Coppedge, and Staffan I. Lindberg. "Making embedded knowledge transparent: How the V-Dem dataset opens new vistas in civil society research." Perspectives on Politics 15, no. 2 (2017): 342-360.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592717000056
Coppedge, Michael, Staffan Lindberg, Svend-Erik Skaaning, and Jan Teorell. "Measuring high level democratic principles using the V-Dem data." International Political Science Review 37, no. 5 (2016): 580-593.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512115622046
Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Steven Fish, Allen Hicken, Matthew Kroenig et al. "Conceptualizing and measuring democracy: A new approach." Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 2 (2011): 247-267.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592711000880
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