V-Dem Institute
The V-Dem Institute (an abbreviation of Varieties of Democracy Institute), founded by Staffan I. Lindberg in 2014, is an independent research institute that serves as the headquarters of the V-Dem Project, a database that seeks to conceptualize and measure democracy. V-Dem defines democracy using seven key principles (electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, majoritarian, and consensual) that emphasize the concept of "rule of the people."[1] The headquarters of the project is based at the department of political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.[2]
Democracy indices
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The V-Dem Institute publishes a number of high-profile datasets that describe qualities of different governments, annually published and publicly available for free.[3] These datasets are used by political scientists, due to information on hundreds of indicator variables describing all aspects of government, especially on the quality of democracy, inclusivity, and other economic indicators.[4] Compared to other measures of democracy (such as the Polity data series and Freedom House's Freedom in the World), the V-Dem Institute's measures of democracy are more granular[5] and 2020 included "more than 470 indicators, 82 mid-level indices, and 5 high-level indices covering 202 polities from the period of 1789–2019".[5] Political scientist Daniel Hegedus describes V-Dem as "the most important provider of quantitative democracy data for scholarly research".[5]
The V-Dem institute also republishes 59 other indicators[6] and several other indices which are created, in part, with the assistance of V-Dem indices. The Digital Society Project is a subset of indicators on V-Dem's survey which asks questions about the political status of social media and the internet.[7]
Democracy Report
[edit]The V-Dem Institute publishes the Democracy Report that describes the state of democracy in the world, with a focus on democratization and autocratization.[8] The Democracy Report is published annually in March. The Democracy Report, the dataset, scientific articles, and working papers are free to download on the institute’s website, which also provides interactive graphic tools.[9]
ERT Dataset
[edit]The Episodes of Regime Transformation (ERT) dataset identifies and collects data on episodes of democratization (liberalizing autocracy, democratic deepening) and autocratization (democratic regression, autocratic regression) within the V-Dem dataset. They conceptualize episodes of regime transformation as "periods when a country undergoes sustained and substantial changes along a democracy-autocracy continuum."[10]
V-Party Dataset
[edit]The Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V-Party) dataset is a database maintained by the V-Dem Institute that tracks the political positions and structures of political parties around the world[11] The database includes parties around the world with over 5% of the vote in their respective systems in the period between 1970 and 2019. [12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Coppedge, Michael; Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Teorell, Jan; Marquardt, Kyle L.; Medzihorsky, Juraj; Pemstein, Daniel; Fox, Linnea; Gastaldi, Lisa; Pernes, Josefine; Rydén, Oskar; von Römer, Johannes; Tzelgov, Eitan; Wang, Yi-ting (2024). "V-Dem Methodology v14". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4782726. ISSN 1556-5068.
- ^ "Varieties of democracy (V-dem) – Varieties of democracy (V-dem), University of Gothenburg, Sweden".
- ^ Redden, Elizabeth (30 March 2020). "Ranking Academic Freedom Globally". Inside Higher Ed.
- ^ V-Dem Institute (2022). "The V-Dem Dataset". Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Hegedüs, Daniel (2020). "Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change. By Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning, and Jan Teorell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 226p. $99.99 cloth". Perspectives on Politics. 18 (4): 1258–1260. doi:10.1017/S1537592720003059. ISSN 1537-5927.
- ^ Rankin, Elizabeth (8 January 2016). "New democracy dataset to 'revolutionize' democracy research". Notre Dame News.
- ^ Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Agnes Cornell, M. Steven Fish, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerløw, Adam Glynn, Allen Hicken, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine F. Maerz, Kyle L.Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Johannes vonRömer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Aksel Sundtröm, EitanTzelgov, Luca Uberti, Yi-ting Wang, Tore Wig, and Daniel Ziblatt. 2021. "V-Dem Codebook v11"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project.[1] Archived 8 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Democracy Reports". V-Dem Institute. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "V-Dem". V-Dem. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Maerz, Seraphine F.; Edgell, Amanda B.; Wilson, Matthew C.; Hellmeier, Sebastian; Lindberg, Staffan I. (February 2021). "A Framework for Understanding Regime Transformation: Introducing the ERT Dataset" (PDF). V-Dem. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "V-Party Dataset". V-Dem.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Staffan I. Lindberg, Nils Düpont, Masaaki Higashijima, Yaman Berker Kava- soglu, Kyle L. Marquardt, Michael Bernhard, Holger Döring, Allen Hicken, Melis Laebens, Juraj Medzihorsky, Anja Neundorf, Ora John Reuter, Saskia Ruth–Lovell, Keith R. Weghorst, Nina Wiese- homeier, Joseph Wright, Nazifa Alizada, Paul Bederke, Lisa Gastaldi, Sandra Grahn, Garry Hindle, Nina Ilchenko, Johannes von Römer, Steven Wilson, Daniel Pemstein, and Brigitte Seim. 2022. “Codebook Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V–Party) V2”. Varieties of Democracy (V–Dem) Project. https://doi.org/10.23696/vpartydsv2
Further reading
[edit]- Max Fisher, "U.S. Allies Drive Much of World’s Democratic Decline, Data Shows: Washington-aligned countries backslid at nearly double the rate of non-allies, data shows, complicating long-held assumptions about American influence" New York Times Nov 16, 2021
- Vanessa A. Boese, Markus Eberhardt: Which Institutions Rule? Unbundling the Democracy-Growth Nexus, V-Dem Institute, Series 2022: 131, February 2022
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