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Datasets released by the V-Dem Institute include information on hundreds of indicator variables describing all aspects of government, especially on the quality of democracy, inclusivity, and other economic indicators. By 2020, the V-Dem index had "more than 470 indicators, 82 mid-level indices, and 5 high-level indices covering 202 polities ...
The V-Dem Institute publishes a number of high-profile datasets that describe qualities of different governments, annually published and publicly available for free. [2] These datasets are used by political scientists, due to information on hundreds of indicator variables describing all aspects of government, especially on the quality of ...
The index is based on five categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture. [9] V-Dem Democracy indices by the V-Dem Institute distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and quantifies these principles. [10]
Reports were published every two years until 2010 and annually thereafter. The index includes 167 countries and territories, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states. Other democracy indices with similar assessments of the state of democracy [1] include V-Dem Democracy indices or Bertelsmann Transformation Index.
The Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean can be compared [1] according to the different definitions of democracy. [2] The V-Dem Democracy indices considers the Latin American and Caribbean countries with the highest democracy scores in 2023 as Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Jamaica and countries with lowest democracy scores as Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela. [3]
[112] [113] V-Dem has measures on democracy starting in 1789, providing rare historical data to compare backsliding events, though comparing across centuries has challenges. [114] V-Dem also scores political parties in an annual illiberalism score, and ranked the Republican Party more similar to authoritarian parties than typical center-right ...
The V-Dem Democracy indices ranked in 2024 Iraq, Israel and Tunisia as the Middle Eastern and North African countries with the highest democracy scores. [5] The Economist Group 's Democracy Index rated in the region Israel as the only "flawed democracy" and no country as "full democracy" for year 2023.
Global trend report Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2022 [1] Global Political Regimes, 2023 V-Dem – processed by Our World in Data [2] Democratic backsliding , also known as autocratization, is the decline in democratic qualities of a political regime, the opposite of democratization .