LibGuides: Empirical Research and Data Services: Democracy Data

Sources for data on democracy

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
Comprehensive and detailed democracy ratings. V-Dem Full includes all 500 V-Dem indicators and 245 indices + 57 other indicators from other data sources.
Each downloaded ZIP includes: Dataset, Codebook, What's New, Cautionary Notes, and Suggested Citations.
Formats include: STATA, CSV, R, SPSS
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“All V-Dem data and graphs generated by the online tools is an open source and free for anyone to use. You do not need to seek permission to use the data, but we kindly ask you to cite the data."
https://www.v-dem.net/about/faq/
Freedom House’s (FH) Freedom in the World
The Freedom in the World report provides numerical ratings and descriptive texts for 210 countries and territories, based on assessments from external analysts, expert advisers, and regional specialists. The report covers aspects such as the electoral process, political pluralism, government functioning, freedom of expression and belief, associational rights, rule of law, and personal autonomy and individual rights.

Format: Excel
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Non-commercial use with proper attribution.

https://freedomhouse.org/about-us/content-permissions
Polity IV Project - by the Center for Systemic Peace
This dataset covers democratic and autocratic "patterns of authority" and regime changes in all independent countries with total population greater than 500,000 in 2018.

Formats: SPSS, Excel
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"We record and report our findings openly and freely in the sincere belief that the guarantor of good governance is an active, informed public."

https://www.systemicpeace.org/mission.html