TY - JOUR
T1 - V-Dem
T2 - A new way to measure democracy
AU - Lindberg, Staffan I.
AU - Coppedge, Michael
AU - Gerring, John
AU - Teorell, Jan
AU - Pemstein, Daniel
AU - Tzelgov, Eitan
AU - Wang, Yi ting
AU - Glynn, Adam
AU - Altman, David
AU - Bernhard, Michael
AU - Fish, Steven
AU - Hicken, Alan
AU - Kroenig, Matthew
AU - McMann, Kelly
AU - Paxton, Pamela
AU - Reif, Megan
AU - Skaaning, Svend Erik
AU - Staton, Jeffrey
PY - 2014/7/1
Y1 - 2014/7/1
N2 - In the last few decades, Western governments have spent huge sums of money to promote democracy abroad. We do not know which, if any, of these programs actually work. If we cannot measure democracy in sufficient detail and with the necessary nuance, we cannot mark its progress and setbacks or affect its future course. While distinguishing the most democratic countries from the least democratic ones is fairly easy, it has proven to be much harder to make finer distinctions. Here we present a new effort aimed at measuring democracy, the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem).
AB - In the last few decades, Western governments have spent huge sums of money to promote democracy abroad. We do not know which, if any, of these programs actually work. If we cannot measure democracy in sufficient detail and with the necessary nuance, we cannot mark its progress and setbacks or affect its future course. While distinguishing the most democratic countries from the least democratic ones is fairly easy, it has proven to be much harder to make finer distinctions. Here we present a new effort aimed at measuring democracy, the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem).
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U2 - 10.1353/jod.2014.0040
DO - 10.1353/jod.2014.0040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904391918
SN - 1045-5736
VL - 25
SP - 159
EP - 169
JO - Journal of Democracy
JF - Journal of Democracy
IS - 3
ER -