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The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem project, based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The V-Dem project (Varieties of Democracy) is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy.
🎓New Research Projects on Democratic Resilience!
Today we congratulate the V-Dem researchers involved in two new research projects that will tackle the issue of democratic resilience, in different ways.

Read more : v-dem.net/news/new-res...

#Polisky #PoliticalScience #DemocraticResilience
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November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Customize your own dataset by combining V-Dem variables with other datasets in Demscore!
Did you know that you can generate your own personal dataset by downloading individual variables through Demscore?
Here are the top 5 downloaded variables in the last 30 days:
@qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @repdem-org.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org
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November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
#GraphOfTheWeek Judicial Reforms in #ElSalvador and #Mexico
Authoritarian leaders often alter the judicial system to expand their powers. This week’s graph highlights the impacts of recent judicial reforms in El Salvador & Mexico.
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@vdemamlat.bsky.social #Polisky
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
⏱️Don’t forget to apply! Internship application deadline for spring 2026 is November 16.
Read more on the V-Dem website: v-dem.net/about/intern...

We especially welcome applicants with an interest in quantitative research and data collection, or social science research communication (or both).
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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📢 New Thematic dataset: 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
The #Demscore v6 update comes with a new thematic dataset on Laws and Liberties.
Available for free at the Demscore website: www.demscore.se/data/themati...

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#SocialScienceData #Polisky #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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📢 Out Now! DEMSCORE v6
Demscore v6 update includes the new @ucdp.bsky.social annual release, updated @repdem-org.bsky.social Basic datasets, @viewsforecasting.org monthly updates until August 2025, + a new thematic dataset on Laws and Liberties.
#SocialScienceData #PoliticalScienceData #Polisky
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November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Coming very soon! DEMSCORE v6 offers new updates from UCDP, REPDEM, and VIEWS, and a new thematic dataset.
@ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org ‬‬
@repdem-org.bsky.social
#polisky #PoliSkyData #PoliSciSky #SocialScience
#SocialScienceData
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October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📌Are you a #student interested in #democracy research? Apply now for an #internship at V-Dem Institute during spring 2026.
Read more and apply: v-dem.net/about/intern...
📆 Deadline November 16

#Polisky #PoliSciSky #ResearchCommunication #SocialScienceData #Disinformation/Democracy
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
📉 #GotW From Hope to Backsliding in #Tunisia
This week’s graph shows the democratic reversal in Tunisia 2010 to 2024. The 4 indices evaluate democracy on a scale from 0 (less democratic) to 1 (more democratic).
Full text with references: v-dem.net/weekly_graph...
#Polisky #PoliticalScienceData
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October 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#GotW Electoral democracy in #TheGambia and #Zambia
The Gambia and Zambia have both recently improved in the Electoral Democracy Index (EDI). This week’s graph shows their performance between 1990 and 2024.
Full text w references @ v-dem.net/weekly_graph...
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#PoliSky #PolDataSky #PoliSkyData
October 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#GotW From the Streets to Silence: The collapse of democratic mobilization in #Nicaragua
This week’s graph shows the mobilization for autocracy and democracy in Nicaragua.
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Full text with references: v-dem.net/weekly_graph...

#PoliSky #PoliSciSky #DemocracyAndAutocracy #PoliticalScienceData
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The global retrenchment of academic freedom, as estimated by V-Dem and FAU:

2008-2015: mostly at the lower part of the scale
2015-2024: the upper part of the scale moves as well

More by FAU at: academic-freedom-index.net

@vdeminstitute.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#InternationalDayOfDemocracy
Today, we celebrate the International Day of Democracy. We take a look at the development of democracy in the world over the past 80 years, by visualizing the V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index (LDI), using the heat map graphing tool.
#PolDataSky #PoliSky #Democracy
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September 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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🏛️ Today is the last day of #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki, and your last chance to come by the #DEMSCORE booth in the Exhibition area of the Law Building.

If you do, you could f ex find out more about a useful DEMSCORE #DataHack👇
#Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScience #CompSocialScience
@ecpr.bsky.social
This week #DEMSCORE is at the #ECPR General Conference 2025, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The DEMSCORE team will be available throughout the conference at our booth in the Exhibition area of the Law Building.
A virtual booth is accessible via the event app: ecpr.eu/app
#ecprgc25 #PoliSky
August 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🎞️In this interview with #CartaCapital, V-Dem Institute Director @silindberg.bsky.social talks about the state of democracy in Latin America (+more):
youtu.be/u-3emkqHgYk?...
Interview in English w Portuguese subtitles
#PoliSciSky #Polisky #PoliticalScience
#Democracy #Autocratization #LatinAmerica
'Os EUA não são mais uma democracia' | Entrevista com Staffan Lindberg
YouTube video by CartaCapital
youtu.be
August 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
❓Are expert’s pessimism about global democracy affecting their coding of democracy locally, and thus greatly inflating estimates of global democratic backsliding?
Find out in the new V-Dem Working Paper: v-dem.net/media/public...
❗Spoiler alert for 🎞️ and 🧵
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#PoliSciSky #Polisky #ExpertCoding
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
📢 Out now: Democracy Report 2025 in Portuguese, with 17 new articles!
Read more and download "Relatório da Democracia 2025: 25 Anos de Autocratização – Foi a Democracia Derrotada?" at v-dem.net/news/out-now...

@cei-iscte.bsky.social @vdemamlat.bsky.social
#PoliSciSky #Polisky #AcademicSky #Science
August 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🌞 In the northern hemisphere it’s summer and time for a well-earned rest. If you are among the over 84,000 people who already downloaded this year’s V-Dem Institute Democracy Report, you can find a few other tips for your summer reading list on the V-Dem website!
v-dem.net/news/summer-...

#polisky
July 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
📢 We’re Hiring! Data Manager for the DEMSCORE Research Infrastructure and the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

Apply by August 10 @ web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

More below👇

#SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky
July 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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📢 Anunciamos la publicación en español del Informe sobre la Democracia 2025: ¿Democracia truncada?, elaborado por @vdeminstitute.bsky.social junto a su Centro Regional para América Latina.
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June 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
📢 Out now: The Spanish translation of #DemocracyReport 2025!
Read more and download at v-dem.net/news/spanish...
The report, translated by @vdemamlat.bsky.social, includes a new section on legislative oversight and democratic resilience in Latin America.
#Polisky #PoliSciSky #PolDataSky #democracy
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Thank YOU #demscore for a great conference once again!
We can only agree that accessible and reliable research data on #Democracy #Environment #Migration #SocialPolicy #Conflict and #Representation is becoming increasingly important and look forward to the continued cooperation within Demscore.
Thank you to all attendants of the 2025 #DemscoreConference!
Your presence and contributions made it a success - we truly value the insights shared in all panels and workshops, and hope to see you again soon.

www.demscore.se

#SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky
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June 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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#DemscoreConference Methodology Workshop presentations from the Demscore modules highlight the many different methods of collecting data, the diverse sources and kind of data collected and eventually included in Demscore.
#Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky
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June 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
June 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
📢 The 2025 #DemscoreConference program is now online: www.demscore.se/events/demsc...
The diversity of subjects and approaches highlights the broad scope of research made possible by combining data through Demscore.

#SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky
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June 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM