Difference between revisions of "Electoral democracy index"

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Revision as of 12:56, 8 October 2019

Quick info
Data type Numeric
Scale Metric
Value labels Not applicable
Technical name polnat_sys_polyarchy_vdem
Category Political factors
Label Electoral democracy index
Related indicators

The "Electoral democracy index" is part of V-Dem's high level democracy indices capturing features of democracy at the most abstract level. The "Electoral democracy index" in particular refers to the ideal of electoral democracy in its fullest sense and ranges from 0 to 1.

It is defined as follows: "The electoral principle of democracy seeks to embody the core value of making rulers responsive to citizens, achieved through electoral competition for the electorate’s approval under circumstances when suffrage is extensive; political and civil society organizations can operate freely; elections are clean and not marred by fraud or systematic irregularities; and elections affect the composition of the chief executive of the country. In between elections, there is freedom of expression and an independent media capable of presenting alternative views on matters of political relevance. In the V-Dem conceptual scheme, electoral democracy is understood as an essential element of any other conception of representative democracy — liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, or some other" (Coppedge et al. 2019, 39).


Coding rules

The index is composed of several component and lower-level indices. For the aggregation formula see Coppedge et al. 2019, 39.


Bibliographic info

Citation: Teorell, Jan, Michael Coppedge, Staffan Lindberg, and Svend-Erik Skaaning. 2019. "Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe, 1900–2017". Studies in Comparative International Development 54 (1): 71–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-018-9268-z


Related publications:
  • Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, M. Steven Fish, Adam Glynn, Allen Hicken, Anna Lührmann, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Agnes Cornell, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerløw, Valeriya Mechkova, Johannes von Römer, Aksel Sundtröm, Eitan Tzelgov, Luca Uberti, Yi-ting Wang, Tore Wig, and Daniel Ziblatt. 2019. "V-Dem Codebook v9". Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project.
  • Pemstein, Daniel, Kyle L. Marquardt, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Juraj Medzihorsky, Joshua Krusell, Farhad Miri, and Johannes von Römer. 2019. "The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data". V-Dem Working Paper No. 21. 4th edition. University of Gothenburg: Varieties of Democracy Institute.



Misc

Project manager(s): Nils Düpont (A01)


Data release: The indicator is included in WeSIS rev. 1


Revisions:
  • 2019.10 Initial upload for WeSIS rev. 1

Sources

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