V-Dem Institute

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The V-Dem Institute (Varieties of Democracy) is an independent research institute founded by Professor Staffan I. Lindberg in 2014 that studies the qualities of government. The institute is funded by a number of government organizations, World Bank and several research institutions.[1] The headquarters of the project is based at the department of political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.[2]

Democracy indices[edit]

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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 a popular dataset among 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[which?] 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 features interactive graphic tools.

V-Party Dataset[edit]

Party positions for all political parties above a vote share of 5% in 169 countries are published as V-Party Dataset by V-Dem Institute.[9] The V-Party Dataset includes indices of Anti-Pluralism, Populism, Cultural Dimension and Economic Left-Right. The Anti-Pluralism Index is modeled as lack of commitment to democratic process, disrespect for fundamental minority rights, demonization of opponents, and acceptance of political violence. The dataset demonstrates higher autocratization for high anti-pluralism and populism.[10]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "List of all funders of the V-Dem Institute and which type of activities they have been funding".
  2. "Varieties of democracy (V-dem) - Varieties of democracy (V-dem), University of Gothenburg, Sweden".
  3. Redden, Elizabeth. "Ranking Academic Freedom Globally". Inside Higher Ed.
  4. V-Dem Institute. "The V-Dem Dataset". Retrieved 8 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Hegedüs, Daniel. "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.
  6. Rankin, Elizabeth. "New democracy dataset to 'revolutionize' democracy research". Notre Dame News.
  7. 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 2021-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Democracy Reports". V-Dem Institute. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  9. "V-Party Dataset". V-Dem Institute. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  10. Medzihorsky, Juraj; Lindberg, Staffan I. "Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties" (PDF). Party Politics. doi:10.1177/13540688231153092.

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