Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
V-Dem provides 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. We distinguish between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collect data to measure these principles.
Democracy Report 2025
and V-Dem Dataset v15
Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped?
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Descarregue o Relatório da Democracia 2025 aqui
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New Research Projects on Democratic Resilience
Two new research projects will tackle the issue of democratic resilience, in different ways. We congratulate the V-Dem researchers involved in the two projects that received funding from the Swedish Research Council.
V-Dem data can also be downloaded through the e-infrastructure Demscore that brings together some of the world's largest social science datasets