Updated to 2020, extended with new units (overseas colonies), and new variables (political liberties, LIED+, electoral turnover, modes of democratic transition, modes of democratic breakdown)
Posterior data for Varieties of Democracy v.6. See [item 0p096684r5g](/show/0p096684r5g) for the codebook describing the variables and their meaning. Each zip file contains the normal, gamma mu, gamma
Collected data sets from March 2023, Varieties of Democracy, version 13.V-Dem seeks to capture seven different conceptions of democracy—participatory, consensual, majoritarian, deliberative, and egali
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. We provide a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity...
The global dataset covers the time period 1800-2016, with yearly observations for all countries that have been independent at any point in time since WWII. Within the category of democracies, we first