Replication Data for \"Democracy For All: Conceptualizing and Measuring Egalitarian Democracy\"

Although equality figures prominently in many foundational theories of democracy, liberal and electoral conceptions of democracy have dominated empirical political science research on topics like political regimes, democratization and democratic survival. This paper develops the concept of egalitarian democracy as a regime that provides de facto protection of rights and freedoms equally across the population, distributes resources in a way that enables meaningful political participation for all citizens and fosters an environment in which all individuals and social groups can influence political and governing processes. Using new indicators from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, the paper develops and presents measures of these important concepts, demonstrates their relationship to existing measures, and illustrates their utility for advancing the study of democracy in ways that more fully embrace the richness of democratic theory.

尽管平等在诸多民主基础理论中占据核心地位，但自由式与选举式民主的概念主导了经验政治科学在政治政体、民主化以及民主存续等议题上的研究。本文提出平等民主（egalitarian democracy）这一概念，将其界定为一种政体：其能够在全体民众中切实平等地保障各项权利与自由，以能够让所有公民实现有意义政治参与的方式分配资源，并营造出所有个体与社会群体均可对政治与治理进程施加影响的环境。本文借助多样民主（Varieties of Democracy, V-Dem）项目的全新指标，构建并呈现了这些核心概念的量化测度方法，验证了其与现有测度指标的关联，并展示了这些测度方法在推动更全面契合民主理论丰富内涵的民主研究方面的应用价值。