Varieties of Democracy
Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change

The essential user's guide to the Varieties of Democracy project, the world's most advanced and comprehensive dataset on democracy.

Michael Coppedge (Author), John Gerring (Author), Adam Glynn (Author), Carl Henrik Knutsen (Author), Staffan I. Lindberg (Author), Daniel Pemstein (Author), Brigitte Seim (Author), Svend-Erik Skaaning (Author), Jan Teorell (Author), David Altman (With), Michael Bernhard (With), Fernando Bizzarro (With), Joshua Krusell (With), Matthew Maguire (With), Kyle Marquardt (With), Kelly McMann (With), Valeriya Mechkova (With), Farhad Miri (With), Josefine Pernes (With), Jeffrey Staton (With), Natalia Stepanova (With), Eitan Tzelgov (With), Yi-ting Wang (With)

9781108424837, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 January 2020

246 pages, 44 b/w illus. 36 tables
24 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.56 kg

'I recommend the inclusion of Varieties of Democracy in any upper-level BA and MA course on research design and methods due to its invaluable service of revealing the thinking that lies behind the application of such methods.' Michael Alvarez, Journal of Peace Research

Varieties of Democracy is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), one of the most ambitious data collection efforts in comparative politics. This global research collaboration sparked a dramatic change in how we study the nature, causes, and consequences of democracy. This book is ambitious in scope: more than a reference guide, it raises standards for causal inferences in democratization research and introduces new, measurable, concepts of democracy and many political institutions. Varieties of Democracy enables anyone interested in democracy - teachers, students, journalists, activists, researchers and others - to analyze V-Dem data in new and exciting ways. This book creates opportunities for V-Dem data to be used in education, research, news analysis, advocacy, policy work, and elsewhere. V-Dem is rapidly becoming the preferred source for democracy data.

1. Introduction: the story of Varieties of Democracy Michael Coppedge, Staffan I. Lindberg and Carl Henrik Knutsen
2. Conceptual scheme John Gerring, Svend-Erik Skaaning, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Michael Coppedge, Carl-Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Kelly McMann and Jan Teorell
3. Data collection Staffan I. Lindberg, Valeriya Mechkova, Natalia Stepanova, Jan Teorell, Michael Coppedge and Carl Henrik Knutsen
4. The measurement model and reliability Daniel Pemstein, Kyle Marquardt, Brigitte Seim, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang and Farhad Miri
5. Dimensions and components of democracy Jan Teorell
6. Data validation Brigitte Seim, Michael Bernhard, Fernando Bizzarro Neto, Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Staffan I. Lindberg, Matthew Maguire, Daniel Pemstein, Jan Teorell and Eitan Tzelgov
7. Explanatory analysis with Varieties of Democracy data Michael Coppedge, Adam Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Daniel Pemstein.

Subject Areas: Political structures: democracy [JPHV], Comparative politics [JPB], Sociology [JHB], History of the Americas [HBJK]