Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? Click here to Download the Democracy Report Click here to Download the V-Dem Dataset v15 V-Dem provides a multidimensional and disaggrega
Maerz, Seraphine F., Amanda B. Edgell, Sebastian Hellemeier, Nina Illchenko, and Linnea Fox. 2024. vdemdata: An R package to load, explore and work with the most recent V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) dataset.https://github.com/vdeminstitute/vdemdata ...
movement towards autocracy which starts within democracies or autocracies(cf. Maerz et al., Journal of Peace Research, 2023andLührmann and Lindberg, Democratization, 2019). Democratization is defined as any movement towards democracy which starts in autocracies or democracies(cf. Wilson et al., ...
The Pandemic Backsliding Project (PanDem) tracks state responses to the Covid-19 pandemic as illustrative of the varieties of emergency measures and their execution, addressing how these decisions affect short- and long-term prospects for democracy. To learn more about the project and its main find...