Responsible research principal(s) for data included in the collection
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.Research area
Government, political systems and organisations
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Political Science, Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
elections, mass media, social inequality, election data, democracy, corruption, political parties, democratization, heads of government, heads of state, electoral issues, media literacy, mass media bias, mass media use, sovereignty, legislature, social media, state, equality between the sexes, licensure
Geographic location
Publications
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
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.
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
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
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