V-Dem Institute

The V-Dem Institute (Varieties of Democracy) is an independent research institute founded by Professor Staffan I. Lindberg in 2014. The Headquarters of the project is based at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.[1]

"Varieties of Democracy" redirects here. For varieties of democracy, see Types of democracy.

Varieties of Democracy is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy.[2][3] 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.[4]

The dataset is updated, expanded and released every year.[5] Based on the current data, V-Dem publishes an annual Democracy Report that describes the state of democracy in the world.[6] The Democracy Report, the dataset, scientific articles, and working papers are free to download on the institute’s website.

References
  1. "Varieties of democracy (V-dem) - Varieties of democracy (V-dem), University of Gothenburg, Sweden".
  2. "New democracy dataset to 'revolutionize' democracy research".
  3. TuckerEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollowContributor, Joshua Tucker closeJoshua; Cage, Monkey. "Open data and (15 million!) new measures of democracy". Washington Post.
  4. Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, Kyle L. Marquardt, Juraj Medzihorsky, Daniel Pemstein, Nazifa Alizada, Lisa Gastaldi, Garry Hindle, Johannes von Römer, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, and Steven Wilson. 2020. “V-Dem Methodology v10”. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project.
  5. "New index rates countries by degree of freedom for scholars".
  6. "V-Dem: Autocratization continues but resistance grows". 25 March 2020.

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