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 1(3)

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 1/3 @silindberg.bsky.social @marinanord.bsky.social #Polisky

🎓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 🧵1(4)

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#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. v-dem.net/weekly_graph... or in 🧵1(8) @vdemamlat.bsky.social #Polisky

⏱️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).

📢 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... More info in 🧵1(3) #SocialScienceData #Polisky #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData

📢 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 1(5)

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 1(3)

📌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

📉 #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 🧵1(5)

#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... 🧵1(7) #PoliSky #PolDataSky #PoliSkyData

#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. 🧵1(6) Full text with references: v-dem.net/weekly_graph... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky #DemocracyAndAutocracy #PoliticalScienceData

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

#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 🧵1(5)

🏛️ 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

🎞️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

❓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 🧵 1(6) #PoliSciSky #Polisky #ExpertCoding

📢 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

🌞 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

📣 Interested in working with social science data management? Don't miss this @demscore.bsky.social job opportunity❗👇 @vdemamlat.bsky.social @digitalsocietyproject.org #SocialScienceJobs #PoliticalScienceJobs #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky #DataManager

📢 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. 👇🧵

📢 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

Thank YOU #demscore for a great conference once again! We can only agree that accessible and reliable research data on #Democracy #Environment #Migration #SocialPolicy #Conflict and #Representation is becoming increasingly important and look forward to the continued cooperation within Demscore.

#DemscoreConference Methodology Workshop presentations from the Demscore modules highlight the many different methods of collecting data, the diverse sources and kind of data collected and eventually included in Demscore. #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky 🧵1(

Happy to be at the Demscore Conference 2025! #SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky

We are very much looking forwards to the #DemscoreConference next week! #SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky

🎉Congratulations on completing your #Master’sThesis! Did you use data from at least two of DEMSCORE's partnering modules? 🏆 Submit your paper for the DEMSCORE Best Master Thesis Award! 📆 Deadline: May 25 See www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky #SocialScience

Want to explore how history shapes democracy, test big-picture theories, or pick case studies based on historical experience? Introducing 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 - a new R package and #VDemInstitute #WorkingPaper. 🧵1(4) #Polisky #ResearchData #StockData #PoliticalScience #PoliSciSky #demstock #DemocracyResearch

First peek of the Demscore Conference program! Join us in Gothenburg for this Data workshop, and more! Sign up here: www.demscore.se/events/demsc...

#GoW #AcademicFreedom in #Türkiye The independence of academia in Türkiye is in steep decline under President Erdoǧan. This week’s graph shows the large losses on 5 indicators in the academic freedom index in the past 15 years. The variables range from 0 (not free) to 4 (fully free). 🧵1(4) #Polisky

Join us at the @demscore.bsky.social Conference 2025 in June, register by May 19!

Visualizing V-Dem data: Harassment of journalists, 2014 & 2024 May 3 is #WorldPressFreedomDay. We used the V-Dem mapping tool to show the V-Dem #HarassmentOfJournalists indicator in 2024. We added the same map for 2014 for comparison. 🧵1(5) #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #DemocracyData

Last day to apply today!

🇹🇼 A few last seats are still available, welcome to our Taiwan-Nordic Forum in Stockholm on May 7th! 🗓️ Find out more about the event and register here: www.isdp.eu/event/taiwan... Topics: Enhancing Supply Chain Security, Total Defense in Taiwan and Sweden, & Democratic Resilience

Out now! New article "State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped?" in Democratization. doi.org/10.1080/1351... by @marinanord.bsky.social, @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social, Ana Good God, and @silindberg.bsky.social #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScience #USA

🚨 Reminder: Don't forget to apply for an internship at V-Dem Institute! 📆 Deadline April 28 for Fall 2025. Read more at v-dem.net/about/intern... #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Internship #DemocracyResearch #Student #PoliSky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #DemocracyData

📉 #GoW Health Inequality in Romania, 2007-2024 #InternationalHealthDay was celebrated on April 7. This week’s graph shows the level of health equality in Romania from 2007 – the year Romania joined the European Union – to 2024. Full text with references: v-dem.net/weekly_graph... 🧵1(6) #Polisky

🌹 25 April: Portugal's Carnation Revolution of 1974 - 75 and the start of the “Third Wave of Democratization” When: Friday April 25, 17.00 – 18.30 Where: University of Gothenburg, Sprängkullsgatan 19, room Dragonen. More information: v-dem.net/news/25-apri... #Portugal #CarnationRevolution

💡 Understanding the V-Dem Rankings and Index Scores “How can you rank Country X like you do, look at what is happening there right now?!” Watch 🎞️ or read in 🧵1(7) #PoliSky #PoliSciData #SocialScience #PoliSciSky #DemocracyData #VDemMethodology #Methodology #DemocracyRankings #DemocracyIndex

📢 New #WorkingPaper Are waves of #democratization and #autocratization best understood as outcomes of structural shifts in the underlying democratization process or as manifestations of a stable process that naturally produces wave-like patterns over time? 1/3 #Polisky #PoliSciSky #Waves #Simulation

📢 #DEMSCORE v5 is out tomorrow, March 28! The update includes the annual updates from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social & @qoginstitute.bsky.social. #REPDEM Basic dataset has been expanded with countries outside Europe and new, additional datasets from #COMPLAB, @ucdp.bsky.social and #HDATA. #polisky 1(2)

#DR2025: 61 countries held national elections in 2024. The figures show the top variables worsening resp. improving in the largest nr of countries holding elections 2024, compared to the year the country had its previous election. 🧵1(3) #Polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky #Democracy

📌Are you a student interested in #democracy research? Apply for an #internship at the V-Dem Institute! 📆 Deadline April 28 for applications for fall 2025. Read more on the V-Dem website: v-dem.net/about/intern... #Polisky #PoliticalScienceStudent #SocialScienceStudent #Student #PoliSciData

🔜 Apply now - Deadline March 27: Applications for the position of Director of the #V-DemInstitute and Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in #PoliticalScience. More information and application: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... #politicalsciencejobs #polisky #PoliSciData

🔎 Which aspects of democracy most commonly improve during democratization? 19 countries were democratizing in 2024, using to the ERT Methodology. The figure shows the NR of countries improving on the top 20 indicators, from the start of each country’s democratization episode to 2024. #polisky 🧵1(4)

💡Understanding the V-Dem Indices To capture the full meaning of different notions of democracy, V-Dem includes several democracy indices, and these V-Dem indices are aggregates based on numerous indicators. Watch 🎞️ or read in 🧵1(6) #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #PolSciData

#DR2025 #Disinformation and #Polarization Disinformation, polarization, & #autocratization often go hand in hand. The relationship between an increasing spread of disinformation, increasing polarization, & then autocratization can be shown over time within countries. 🧵1(3) #polisky #PoliSciSky

🔎 What aspects of #democracy were most badly affected in 2024? The figure shows the 20 V-Dem Indicators that declined in the most countries in 2024. V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... DR2025: v-dem.net/publications... #polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliSciData #media #FreedomOfExpression 🧵1(3)

#DR2025: #Democratizers and #Autocratizers In 2024, 64 countries are in a process of regime transformation, using the Episodes of Regime Transformation (ERT) methodology. The figure shows autocratizing countries (red) and democratizing (blue). Gray=no significant change. #polisky #PolSciData 🧵1(3)