Varieties of democracy : measuring two centuries of political change / Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam N. Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend- Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

©2020

xvii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Varieties of Democracy, or "V-Dem," is a global research project producing new measures of hundreds of attributes of democracy as far back as 1789 for many countries, and for almost all countries around the world from 1900 to the present. This book is a reference guide for anyone who wants to use V-Dem data wisely. It provides full information about the concepts that the data measure, what we know about the validity and reliability of the data, what it reveals about the structure of democracy and the general trends in democratization over the past 229 years, as well as why this explosion of information is likely to raise the standards for causal inferences in democratization research. The V-Dem team and others are already producing a series of publications and papers leveraging the distinctive strengths of these new data, so this book also calls attention to some of those first fruits"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Varieties of democracy Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

English

May 19, 2020

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index.