Abstract The Varieties of Democracy (V–Dem) project relies on country experts who code a
host of ordinal variables, providing subjective ratings of latent-that is, not directly observable …

The detrimental impacts of wars on human development are well documented across
research domains, from public health to micro-economics. However, these impacts are …

This paper presents a new measure polyarchy for a global sample of 182 countries from
1900 to 2017 based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, deriving from an expert …

Huntington famously distinguished between waves of democratization and de-
democratization. Based on an alternative conceptualization of waves of regime change and …

This article presents new evidence on the efforts of states to collect and process information
about themselves, their territories, and their populations. We compile data on five institutions …

We use a newly assembled indicator of corruption from Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) to
examine the effects of corruption on economic growth. The V-Dem indicator is coded for …

We revisit the hypothesis that a Weberian bureaucracy enhances economic growth.
Theoretically, we develop arguments for why such a bureaucracy may enhance growth and …

During the past decade, analyses drawing on several democracy measures have shown a
global trend of democratic retrenchment. While these democracy measures use radically …

The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and
measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on …

We present a temporally fine-grained data set on regimes, defined as the formal and
informal rules essential for selecting leaders. The data set comprises more than 2,000 …