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
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...
Posterior data for Varieties of Democracy v.5. See [https://curate.nd.edu/articles/dataset/Varieties_of_Democracy_v_5_2016_/24723633] for the codebook describing the variables and their meaning. Each
