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
Language
English
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
V-Dem Institute
Identifiers
Unit of analysis
Population
Countries
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1789-01-01 – 2019-12-31
Geographic spread
Geographic location: North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Oceania
Lowest geographic unit
Country
Highest geographic unit
Country
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
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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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 wor
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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
Carl Henrik Knutsen
- University of Oslo
Staffan I. Lindberg
- University of Gothenburg
Jan Teorell
- Lund University
Time period(s) investigated
1789-12-31 – 2019-12-31
Variables
4108
Number of individuals/objects
27013
Associated documentation
Description
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 wor
... Show more..Data format / data structure
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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
Carl Henrik Knutsen
- University of Oslo
Staffan I. Lindberg
- University of Gothenburg
Jan Teorell
- Lund University
Time period(s) investigated
1789-01-01 – 2019-12-31
Variables
3888
Number of individuals/objects
73852
Associated documentation
Description
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 wor
... Show more..Data format / data structure
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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
Carl Henrik Knutsen
- University of Oslo
Staffan I. Lindberg
- University of Gothenburg
Jan Teorell
- Lund University
Time period(s) investigated
1789-01-01 – 2019-12-31
Variables
1118
Number of individuals/objects
391531