Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem): Om att mäta demokrati och diktatur

Abstract

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
The study of democracy lies at the center of political science and is increasingly important in economics and sociology. Yet, we lack a comprehensive, multifaceted and reliable measure of democracy. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project provides a novel approach to measuring seven principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, majoritarian, consensual, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian. It incorporates the V-Dem Database, comprising indices of all seven varieties and their components, as well as measures of 329 disaggregated indicators on a worldwide basis, from 1900 until the present. The result is the largest ever and most comprehensive database on democracy, with some 22.5 million data points.