V-Dem Institute

@vdeminstitute

A new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. Database with 28.4 million points, 202 countries, 470+ indicators, from 1789-2019.

Gothenburg, Sweden
Joined October 2013

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  1. Oct 20

    After two postponements, headed to the polls on Oct 18 to elect a new president. This graph looks at 's using the Electoral Component Index & the Liberal Democracy Index in dataset.

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    Oct 19

    New article on Fast Track by Kelly M. McMann, Matthew Maguire, John Gerring, Michael Coppedge, & Staffan I. Lindberg, “Explaining Subnational Regime Variation: Country-Level Factors,” now available:

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    Oct 15

    Democratic values highlighted by President Carl Gershman, of , & IWM Rector Shalini Randeria in final discussion of

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  4. Oct 14

    in the Post-Covid World? Key Values for Our Common Future: join Deputy Director at the 24th Conference, 17:30 - 18:30 CET today!

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  5. Oct 14

    It has been 7 months since the declared as a . The Pandemic Backsliding dataset of tracks state responses to the to capture how they affect the short & long-term prospects for .

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  6. Oct 13

    New Working Paper by is out! It focuses on the impact of on growth, suggesting that several previous studies have underestimated the growth-benefits of .

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    Oct 10

    TIL has an R package with the data and handy lookup functions. What a great service!

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    Oct 9
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  9. Oct 6

    The gender equality indicator in dataset quantifies the extent to which women enjoy the same level of civil liberties as men. It measures women's access to justice, private property rights, freedom of movement, and freedom from forced labor.

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  10. Oct 5

    's new Pandemic Backsliding data shows: • The situation has improved for almost 1/4 of the countries compared to Mar-Jun • Violations of democratic standards persist in 65 countries, most of which were autocratic before the pandemic

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  11. Oct 2

    New release: Policy Brief and data update on Pandemic Backsliding tracking the effects of related measures on democratic standards in 144 countries! Data Policy Brief

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    Sep 30

    Today, global data on democracy is more fine-grained then ever. In this new WP my coauthor Matthew Wilson and I ask: does electoral democracy consist of multiple underlying dimensions? a thread...

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  13. Sep 30

    Updates on the Pandemic Backsliding data, 5 new Working Papers, on the International Democracy Day & much more, here's a summary of the key events which has happened at this Sep!

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    Sep 30

    European Commission's 1st rule of law audit discusses also and pluralism in several MS. Here's data on "Do the major print and broadcast media represent a wide range of political perspectives?" in selected MS Charts:

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  15. Sep 29

    How do government responses to violate standards? How do such violations relate to the countries’ success in limiting the death tolls? New paper by scholars , , Jean Lachapelle &

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  16. Sep 29

    Can we predict when occurs? The Predicting Adverse Regime Transitions (PART) forecasting tool employs data from & four other databases to produce yearly estimates of the risk of adverse regime transitions for each country.

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  17. Sep 23

    Ambassador Vincent Chin-Hsiang Yao from Taipei Mission in Sweden visited the and today.

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  18. Sep 23

    New Working Paper by researchers Martin Lundstedt & on clientelism and electoral integrity.

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  19. Sep 22

    has retreated globally since 2009. Democracy Report 2020 shows a growing decline in liberal democracy in all regions. This graph looks at the development of in some East-Central European countries in the last decades.

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  20. Sep 22

    "Volunteer to become a poll worker, or help some get-out-the-vote effort, or work with a political party to encourage turnout to make sure your side wins by a clear margin," co-Principal Investigator Michael Coppedge said.

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