Season's Greetings from the V-Dem Institute
We wish everyone happy holidays with some tips on what to read, listen to, and watch during the holidays, and a heads-up of what’s to come in 2025.
To Read - New Papers
"Achieving Transparency, Traceability, and Readability with Human-Coded Data". PS: Political Science & Politics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096524000714
"Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability". International Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/01925121241293459
To Watch - A House Cat Asks Questions from Scratch
An extra special holiday treat, where V-Dem Institute Director Staffan I. Lundberg turns into a cartoon and explains democracy to a cat - not to be missed! In Japanese but subtitles are available.
Understanding Democracy Through Animation #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9lZDQKbp4I
Understanding Democracy Through Animation #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q059008NKYY
To Listen (in Swedish)
"Svensk demokrati i en internationell jämförelse", with V-Dem Institute Director Staffan I. Lindberg. https://shows.acast.com/660be34f9446cb0016dc0e48/67629ecbe33879c628bd129d
“Demokrati på tillbakagång – Hongkong och världen”, with V-Dem Institute Director Staffan I. Lindberg. https://folkochforsvar.se/event/demokrati-i-tillbakagang-hongkong-och-varlden/
To Come in 2025
Next year, we can look forward to among other things the V-Dem Data Release v15, the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2025, new Policy Breifs, Country Reports and much more.
Thank you all for this year and see you in 2025!