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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.
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Democracy Winning and Losing at the Ballot
The Launch of the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2024 and the V-Dem Dataset version 14 will take place on March 7.
V-Dem data can also be downloaded through the e-infrastructure Demscore that brings together some of the world's largest social science datasets