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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
#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.
v-dem.net/weekly_graph... or in 🧵1(8)
@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
📌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
Great use of our data😄 Although, if you include Eurovision 2025 countries that NQ for the final, the picture becomes slightly more muddled. Take f ex Azerbaijan (with a 0.05 score on the LDI), Serbia, who plays both teams (0.22), Georgia (0.33), or Montenegro (0.48). See all NQ countries in graph 👇
September 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
#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
❓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
📢 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
Want to explore how history shapes democracy, test big-picture theories, or pick case studies based on historical experience?
Introducing 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 - a new R package and #VDemInstitute #WorkingPaper.
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#Polisky #ResearchData #StockData #PoliticalScience
#PoliSciSky #demstock #DemocracyResearch
May 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
#GoW #AcademicFreedom in #Türkiye
The independence of academia in Türkiye is in steep decline under President Erdoǧan. This week’s graph shows the large losses on 5 indicators in the academic freedom index in the past 15 years. The variables range from 0 (not free) to 4 (fully free).
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#Polisky
May 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Visualizing V-Dem data: Harassment of journalists, 2014 & 2024
May 3 is #WorldPressFreedomDay. We used the V-Dem mapping tool to show the V-Dem #HarassmentOfJournalists indicator in 2024. We added the same map for 2014 for comparison.
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#Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #DemocracyData
May 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Out now! New article "State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped?" in Democratization.
doi.org/10.1080/1351...

by @marinanord.bsky.social, @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social, Ana Good God, and @silindberg.bsky.social

#Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScience #USA
April 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨 Reminder: Don't forget to apply for an internship at V-Dem Institute!
📆 Deadline April 28 for Fall 2025.

Read more at v-dem.net/about/intern...

#SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Internship #DemocracyResearch #Student
#PoliSky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #DemocracyData
April 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📉 #GoW Health Inequality in Romania, 2007-2024
#InternationalHealthDay was celebrated on April 7. This week’s graph shows the level of health equality in Romania from 2007 – the year Romania joined the European Union – to 2024.

Full text with references: v-dem.net/weekly_graph...

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#Polisky
April 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🌹 25 April: Portugal's Carnation Revolution of 1974 - 75 and the start of the “Third Wave of Democratization”

When: Friday April 25, 17.00 – 18.30
Where: University of Gothenburg, Sprängkullsgatan 19, room Dragonen.

More information: v-dem.net/news/25-apri...

#Portugal #CarnationRevolution
April 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
💡 Understanding the V-Dem Rankings and Index Scores
“How can you rank Country X like you do, look at what is happening there right now?!”

Watch 🎞️ or read in 🧵1(7)

#PoliSky #PoliSciData #SocialScience #PoliSciSky #DemocracyData #VDemMethodology #Methodology #DemocracyRankings #DemocracyIndex
April 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
📢 New #WorkingPaper
Are waves of #democratization and #autocratization best understood as outcomes of structural shifts in the underlying democratization process or as manifestations of a stable process that naturally produces wave-like patterns over time?
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#Polisky #PoliSciSky #Waves #Simulation
March 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#DR2025: 61 countries held national elections in 2024.
The figures show the top variables worsening resp. improving in the largest nr of countries holding elections 2024, compared to the year the country had its previous election.

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#Polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky #Democracy
March 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📌Are you a student interested in #democracy research? Apply for an #internship at the V-Dem Institute!

📆 Deadline April 28 for applications for fall 2025.

Read more on the V-Dem website: v-dem.net/about/intern...

#Polisky #PoliticalScienceStudent #SocialScienceStudent #Student #PoliSciData
March 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🔎 Which aspects of democracy most commonly improve during democratization?
19 countries were democratizing in 2024, using to the ERT Methodology.
The figure shows the NR of countries improving on the top 20 indicators, from the start of each country’s democratization episode to 2024.
#polisky
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March 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM