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Demscore
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A hub for world-leading social science data, open source and user-friendly access. Collaboration between V-Dem, QoG, UCDP/VIEWS, COMPLAB, REPDEM, and H-Data.
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 29
@ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 29
The Hack? It enables the smooth inclusion of external data with your chosen DEMSCORE data, minimizing the usual hassle that comes with combining data from different sources.

Not in Thessaloniki? Read more here: www.demscore.se/news/using-d...
Using DEMSCORE to Combine External Data – Demscore
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 29
🏛️ 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
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 26
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
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 26
Not in Thessaloniki? See the DEMSCORE website for more information and to download your own customized dataset: www.demscore.se
Demscore
Demscore brings together some of the world's largest research infrastructures and social science databases – all located at various Swedish universities.
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 26
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
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 21
DEMSCORE @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social
@vdeminstitute.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org
@repdem-org.bsky.social #COMPLAB #H-Data
Universities @uupeace.bsky.social
@uu-polisci.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social ‬
‪‬‬‬@sofi.su.se @umeauniversitet.bsky.social #UniversityOfGothenburg
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 21
We would like to thank everyone working in DEMSCORE's partner modules & core team for the important & excellent work they do. Their efforts make it possible for DEMSCORE to deliver harmonized, high-quality social science data, freely accessible to researchers, policymakers, & the public.
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Aug 21
🏆We are happy to announce that #DEMSCORE has received the 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 & 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 Award, in the framework of Acquisition International’s Non-Profit Organisation Award 2025🎉

#SocialScienceData #SocialScience #PolDataSky #PoliSkyData #PoliSciSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky
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Representative Democracy Data Archive @repdem-org.bsky.social · Jun 27
🎉 New data drop!

We’ve just updated our dataset covering political parties, parliaments, and governments in 33 parliamentary democracies from 1945 (or their democratic transitions) until June 2025.

Find it here: repdem.org/index.php/cu...

#Democracy #OpenData #ComparativePolitics #Demscore
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jul 3
@ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @repdem-org.bsky.social‬ @viewsforecasting.org @medem.bsky.social‬ @sampol.bsky.social @uupeace.bsky.social
@uu-polisci.bsky.social @prioresearch.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jul 3
Main tasks include programming assignments to maintain the DEMSCORE infrastructure and to prepare the biannual data updates of the infrastructure. The successful candidate will be working with Demscore’s data manager, who is working part time for the project.
More on Demscore at www.demscore.se
Demscore
Demscore brings together some of the world's largest research infrastructures and social science databases – all located at various Swedish universities.
www.demscore.se
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jul 3
📢 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
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 11
As the demand for reliable and accessible data in the areas covered by #Demscore continues to grow, we look forward to keep developing Demscore together to an even more useful and accessible resource.
#Democracy, #Environment, #Migration, #SocialPolicy, #Conflict, #Representation #data
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 11
And a big thank you goes to the modules that make Demscore the valuable research resource that it is: @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @repdem-org.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org and #COMPLAB

www.demscore.se/partners/
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Partners – Demscore
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 11
Thank you to all attendants of the 2025 #DemscoreConference!
Your presence and contributions made it a success - we truly value the insights shared in all panels and workshops, and hope to see you again soon.

www.demscore.se

#SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
Lena Malin Grüninger did her Master's in Political Science at the University Kaiserslautern-Landau, of which the final 2 semesters were spent at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, where she wrote her master’s thesis.
Read the thesis: gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/ha...
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
offering social security for elderly citizens by extending old-age pensions is a particularly effective tool for autocratizers to increase citizens’ loyalty towards the regime and ensuring its continuity.
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
she shows that expansive pension policies play a significant role in U-turns. She also finds significant evidence that expansions of the pension system universality are used by autocratizers for ‘legitimacy washing’;
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
The master’s thesis focuses on the relationship between two aspects of contemporary politics: the world’s aging crisis, and democratic resilience. Using two datasets from Demscore, the V-Dem country-year dataset and the ERT dataset, combined with the Social Policy around the World, SPaW,
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
🥁#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!🎉
#Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #PolDataSky
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
using data mining from conflict text corpora to facilitate deep active learning.
@mrtcn.bsky.social @chandlerwilliams.bsky.social @prioresearch.bsky.social
Abstracts can be found here: www.demscore.se/events/demsc...

@qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @repdem-org.bsky.social
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Panel 5 – Demscore
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
Four presented papers on the challenges in identifying civilian and combatant victims in organized violence, the role of input data in forecasting the intensity of armed conflicts, how to improve conflict monitoring and predicting the present by “nowcasting” wartime fatalities, and
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
Right now at the #DemscoreConference:
Final panel - How to deal with uncertainty in #conflict data collection and forecasting?
@uupeace.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social
@viewsforecasting.org‬‬‬ @uupeace.bsky.social ‬

#SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
We are happy to have started this discussions today at the #DemscoreConference, and look forward to the continuation!

@ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social ‪@repdem-org.bsky.social‬ @viewsforecasting.org @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social ‬
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · Jun 10
Solutions vary from getting access to supercomputers, using other computational infrastructure like #NAISS, and to collaborate more on exchanging knowledge and code through for example #Github, as well as learning about each other’s methods for validity checks and balances.
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