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Varieties of Democracy Dataset - Version 9

SND-ID: EXT 0311

This study is part of the collection Varieties of Democracy

Overview
Data and documentation

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

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.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

V-Dem Institute

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemcy19

URL: https://www.v-dem.net/en/data/data-version-9/

Protection and ethical review

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Geographic unit

Individual

Population

Countries

Time Method

Longitudinal: Panel: Continuous

Other

Sampling procedure

Other

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.

Time period(s) investigated

1789-12-31 – 2018-12-31

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Oceania

Lowest geographic unit

Country

Highest geographic unit

Country

Topic and keywords

Research area

Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
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 state, electoral issues, media literacy, mass media bias, mass media use, sovereignty, legislature, licensure, social media, state, equality between the sexes

Publications

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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

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).

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).

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, 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

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

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Access to data via

Homepage

https://www.v-dem.net/en/

Dataset 1

Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others

Associated documentation

v-dem_codebook_v9.pdf

v-dem_country_coding_units_v9.pdf

v-dem_methodology_v9.pdf

v-dem_organizationmanagement_v9.pdf

v-dem_structure_of_indices_v9.pdf

Description