💡What is a V-Dem Country Coding Unit?
A V-Dem “country” is a political unit enjoying at least some degree of functional and/or formal sovereignty. Watch the video or read in the thread to find out more. 👇

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📢 V-Dem dataset version 16, updated with data for 2025, and the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 will be released on March 17!
Make sure to follow us so you don't miss the announcement.

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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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Data – Demscore

We invite you to make good use of the updated data, available for download at the Demscore website: www.demscore.se/data/

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Image of ocean shore with text with information about what is new in the Demscore version 6 update.

📢 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.
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The image is a graph showing four V-Dem indices for Tunisia from 2010 to 2024, on a scale from 0 (less democratic) to 1 (more democratic). The Civil society participation index, the Freedom of expression index, the Judicial constraints on the executive index, and the Liberal Democracy Index all show sharp upward turns in 2010 to 2012, remaining stable on a high level until they all decline from 2021 and onward, many of them sharply.

📉 #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...
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#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...

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Graphing Tools – V-Dem

For a rainy day, we recommend checking out the V-Dem graphing tools to further explore the state of democracy in the world with the V-Dem data: v-dem.net/graphing/gra...

We will take a short break from the V-Dem social media, see you again in August!

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📣 Interested in working with social science data management? Don't miss this @demscore.bsky.social job opportunity❗👇

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📢 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...

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🥁#DemscoreBestMastersThesisAward 2025 goes to Lena Malin Grüninger, University of Gothenburg & ‪@rptu.bsky.social‬, for her thesis “The World is Getting Old – Pension Policies as Drivers for U-Turn Regime Transformations”
🏆Congratulations!🎉
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Panel 3 – Demscore

Find more details and abstracts here: www.demscore.se/events/demsc...

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Panel 2 – Demscore

You can find the abstracts of both papers online: www.demscore.se/events/demsc...

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At the #DemscoreConference 2025: The Demscore modules present ongoing work, and we compare Demscore to the Webb telescope.

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#Democracy #Environment #Migration #SocialPolicy #Conflict #Representation #data

Happy to be at the Demscore Conference 2025!
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We are very much looking forwards to the #DemscoreConference next week!

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🎉Congratulations on completing your #Master’sThesis!
Did you use data from at least two of DEMSCORE's partnering modules?
🏆 Submit your paper for the DEMSCORE Best Master Thesis Award!
📆 Deadline: May 25
See www.demscore.se/events/demsc...

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Thank you to @ITAM and @egenpolisci.bsky.social for a wonderful workshop arguing about gender and political power. We won't give up studying representation, violence against women, and backlash just because there are haters!

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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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🚨 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...

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#Demscore version 5 offers three new thematic datasets on #EconomicDevelopment, #Health, and #Peace respectively.

Explore all Demscore thematic datasets at www.demscore.se/data/themati...

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Inequalities in access to services affect the rural populations and people without an identity card, such as the Roma population, disproportionately. In addition, the number of doctors and nurses among the lowest in Europe, many of whom decide to migrate.
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Hey #Gendersky #Polisky #PoliticalBehavio(u)r #PoliticalScienceData: Check Out @egenpolisci.bsky.social's brilliant group of Prize Winners. Funding the next gen of gender scholarship!

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Demscore Demscore brings together some of the world's largest research infrastructures and social science databases – all located at various Swedish universities.

In addition, DEMSCORE v5 offers three new thematic datasets and new translation functions.

Find out more March 28: www.demscore.se

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#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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💡Understanding the V-Dem Indices
To capture the full meaning of different notions of democracy, V-Dem includes several democracy indices, and these V-Dem indices are aggregates based on numerous indicators.

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📢 Out now! Democracy Report 2025:
25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?

Read the Report: v-dem.net/publications...
Download the V-Dem Dataset v15: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...

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🚨 DEMOCRACY REPORT 2025 🚨

It is finally out!..

🔗 v-dem.net/documents/54...

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📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v15 and the V-dem Institute Democracy Report 2025

The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...
DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications...

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📢 The Democracy Report 2025 will be released March 13!
The report builds on the V-Dem Dataset v15 to be released the same day. Subscribe to not miss it!

Download the v15 dataset and the DR 2025 from the V-Dem website: www.v-dem.net
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