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Varieties of Democracy Dataset - Version 10

SND-ID: EXT 0363

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

Carl Henrik Knutsen - University of Oslo

Staffan I. Lindberg - University of Gothenburg

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/vdemds20

URL: https://www.v-dem.net/en/data/data-version-10/

Protection and ethical review

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Geographic unit

Individual

Population

Countries

Time Method

Longitudinal: Panel: Interval

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

1789-01-01 – 2019-12-31

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, 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

Publications

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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.

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.

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, et al. "The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy”(V-Dem)." Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique 143.1 (2019): 107-133.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

Coppedge, Michael, et al. "Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change." (2020).

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.

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Access to data via

Homepage

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

Contact

Anna Lührmann

anna.luehrmann@v-dem.net

Garry Hindle

garry.hindle@v-dem.net

Johannes von Römer

johannes.roemer@v-dem.net

Lisa Gastaldi

lisa.gastaldi@v-dem.net