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Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change

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 great in scope and ambition. 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.