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The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem project, based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The V-Dem project (Varieties of Democracy) is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy.
The December edition of the V-Dem Institute Newsletter is out! 📬
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#Polisky #PolDataSky
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
#GotW Cybersecurity and Elections 📉
Cybersecurity has become essential to protect democracy. This week’s graph shows governments’ cybersecurity capacity, i.e. if they have sufficient skills and resources to mitigate harm from cybersecurity threats, across the globe.
v-dem.net/weekly_graph...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Save the Date: #DEMSCORE Conference 2026
The fourth DEMSCORE Conference will take place in Gothenburg on June 8–9, 2026.
More information: www.demscore.se/events/demsc...

@ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org ‬‬
@repdem-org.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Join V-Dem Institute at the Swedish Forum for Human Rights 2025 for the panel “Democratic resilience in times of autocratization”.
Full program: invitepeople.com/public/event...
📆 December 9, 10:00-11:00
🌍 Stockholm, Kistamässan
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@silindberg.bsky.social @marinanord.bsky.social #Polisky
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🎓New Research Projects on Democratic Resilience!
Today we congratulate the V-Dem researchers involved in two new research projects that will tackle the issue of democratic resilience, in different ways.

Read more : v-dem.net/news/new-res...

#Polisky #PoliticalScience #DemocraticResilience
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November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Customize your own dataset by combining V-Dem variables with other datasets in Demscore!
Did you know that you can generate your own personal dataset by downloading individual variables through Demscore?
Here are the top 5 downloaded variables in the last 30 days:
@qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @repdem-org.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org
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November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
#GraphOfTheWeek Judicial Reforms in #ElSalvador and #Mexico
Authoritarian leaders often alter the judicial system to expand their powers. This week’s graph highlights the impacts of recent judicial reforms in El Salvador & Mexico.
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@vdemamlat.bsky.social #Polisky
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
⏱️Don’t forget to apply! Internship application deadline for spring 2026 is November 16.
Read more on the V-Dem website: v-dem.net/about/intern...

We especially welcome applicants with an interest in quantitative research and data collection, or social science research communication (or both).
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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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#SocialScienceData #Polisky #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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📢 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.
#SocialScienceData #PoliticalScienceData #Polisky
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November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Coming very soon! DEMSCORE v6 offers new updates from UCDP, REPDEM, and VIEWS, and a new thematic dataset.
@ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org ‬‬
@repdem-org.bsky.social
#polisky #PoliSkyData #PoliSciSky #SocialScience
#SocialScienceData
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October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📌Are you a #student interested in #democracy research? Apply now for an #internship at V-Dem Institute during spring 2026.
Read more and apply: v-dem.net/about/intern...
📆 Deadline November 16

#Polisky #PoliSciSky #ResearchCommunication #SocialScienceData #Disinformation/Democracy
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
📉 #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...
#Polisky #PoliticalScienceData
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October 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#GotW Electoral democracy in #TheGambia and #Zambia
The Gambia and Zambia have both recently improved in the Electoral Democracy Index (EDI). This week’s graph shows their performance between 1990 and 2024.
Full text w references @ v-dem.net/weekly_graph...
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#PoliSky #PolDataSky #PoliSkyData
October 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#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...

#PoliSky #PoliSciSky #DemocracyAndAutocracy #PoliticalScienceData
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The global retrenchment of academic freedom, as estimated by V-Dem and FAU:

2008-2015: mostly at the lower part of the scale
2015-2024: the upper part of the scale moves as well

More by FAU at: academic-freedom-index.net

@vdeminstitute.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#InternationalDayOfDemocracy
Today, we celebrate the International Day of Democracy. We take a look at the development of democracy in the world over the past 80 years, by visualizing the V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index (LDI), using the heat map graphing tool.
#PolDataSky #PoliSky #Democracy
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September 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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🏛️ Today is the last day of #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki, and your last chance to come by the #DEMSCORE booth in the Exhibition area of the Law Building.

If you do, you could f ex find out more about a useful DEMSCORE #DataHack👇
#Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScience #CompSocialScience
@ecpr.bsky.social
This week #DEMSCORE is at the #ECPR General Conference 2025, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The DEMSCORE team will be available throughout the conference at our booth in the Exhibition area of the Law Building.
A virtual booth is accessible via the event app: ecpr.eu/app
#ecprgc25 #PoliSky
August 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🎞️In this interview with #CartaCapital, V-Dem Institute Director @silindberg.bsky.social talks about the state of democracy in Latin America (+more):
youtu.be/u-3emkqHgYk?...
Interview in English w Portuguese subtitles
#PoliSciSky #Polisky #PoliticalScience
#Democracy #Autocratization #LatinAmerica
'Os EUA não são mais uma democracia' | Entrevista com Staffan Lindberg
YouTube video by CartaCapital
youtu.be
August 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
❓Are expert’s pessimism about global democracy affecting their coding of democracy locally, and thus greatly inflating estimates of global democratic backsliding?
Find out in the new V-Dem Working Paper: v-dem.net/media/public...
❗Spoiler alert for 🎞️ and 🧵
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#PoliSciSky #Polisky #ExpertCoding
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
📢 Out now: Democracy Report 2025 in Portuguese, with 17 new articles!
Read more and download "Relatório da Democracia 2025: 25 Anos de Autocratização – Foi a Democracia Derrotada?" at v-dem.net/news/out-now...

@cei-iscte.bsky.social @vdemamlat.bsky.social
#PoliSciSky #Polisky #AcademicSky #Science
August 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🌞 In the northern hemisphere it’s summer and time for a well-earned rest. If you are among the over 84,000 people who already downloaded this year’s V-Dem Institute Democracy Report, you can find a few other tips for your summer reading list on the V-Dem website!
v-dem.net/news/summer-...

#polisky
July 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
📢 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...

More below👇

#SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky
July 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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📢 Anunciamos la publicación en español del Informe sobre la Democracia 2025: ¿Democracia truncada?, elaborado por @vdeminstitute.bsky.social junto a su Centro Regional para América Latina.
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June 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
📢 Out now: The Spanish translation of #DemocracyReport 2025!
Read more and download at v-dem.net/news/spanish...
The report, translated by @vdemamlat.bsky.social, includes a new section on legislative oversight and democratic resilience in Latin America.
#Polisky #PoliSciSky #PolDataSky #democracy
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM