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against the tyranny of the state and the tyranny of the majority. The liberal model takes a \"negative\" view of political power insofar as it judges the quality of democracy by the limits placed on government. This is achieved by constitutionally protected civil liberties, strong rule of law, an independent judiciary, and effective checks and balances that, together, limit the exercise of executive power. To make this a measure of liberal democracy, the index also takes the level of electoral democracy into account.\n\nScale: Interval, from low to high (0-1).\n\nV-Dem indicator name: `v2x_libdem`", "descriptionProcessing": "### Region aggregates\nThe default regional aggregates (including values for the World) have been estimated by averaging the country values. These are only estimated when data for most countries and populations is available (i.e. 70% for most continents). We have used the list of countries in 1900 as a reference.\n\nIn addition, regional aggregates with names like \"Region (population-weighted)\" (including values for World) have been estimated by averaging the country values weighted by population. The population values are from the UN WPP 2024 revision dataset. These are only estimated when 70% of people in region have data for the given year.\n\n### Data imputation\nWe expand the years covered by V-Dem further: To expand the time coverage of today's countries and include more of the period when they were still non-sovereign territories, we identified the historical entity they were a part of and used that regime's data whenever available\n\nFor example, V-Dem only provides regime data since Bangladesh's independence in 1971. There is, however, regime data for Pakistan and the colony of India, both of which the current territory of Bangladesh was a part. We, therefore, use the regime data of Pakistan for Bangladesh from 1947 to 1970, and the regime data of India from 1789 to 1946. We did so for all countries with a past or current population of more than one million.\n\nFor more details on the imputation methodology and which countries are affected, refer to [this file](https://github.com/owid/etl/blob/master/etl/steps/data/garden/democracy/2025-03-17/vdem/vdem.countries_impute.yml).", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "0197114e-6480-7917-974a-88bd865c113b", "dataChecksum": "11940907329161711230", "metadataChecksum": "-3133888411564954553", "datasetName": "V-Dem Country-Year (Full + Others)", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2025-03-17", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"numDecimalPlaces": 2}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Liberal democracy index", "titleVariant": "", "attributionShort": "V-Dem", "topicTagsLinks": ["Democracy"]}, "descriptionKey": ["This index, produced by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), is useful if you are interested in big and small differences in democracy, want scores for almost all countries, and prefer a narrow understanding of democracy. For data that focuses on big differences in political systems or has a broad understanding of democracy, other sources will be more useful. You can explore these alternatives in our [Key Democracy Charts](https://ourworldindata.org/democracy#all-charts) and [Democracy Data Explorer](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/democracy?Dataset=Varieties+of+Democracy&Metric=Electoral+democracy&Sub-metric=Main+index&country=ARG~AUS~BWA~CHN~OWID_WRL).", "It takes a narrow view of democracy by focusing on electoral (free and fair elections) and liberal political institutions (civil rights and protection from the state).", "The index is based mainly on assessments by V-Dem's country experts. It also uses some factual information coded by its own researchers.", "It is made up of eight sub-indices: the [share of adult citizens who have the right to vote](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suffrage), [elected officials](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/elected-political-leaders-index), [free and fair elections](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/free-and-fair-elections-index), [freedom of expression](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/freedom-of-expression-index), [freedom of association](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/freedom-of-association-index), [legislative constraints on the executive](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/legislative-constraints-on-the-executive-index), [judicial constraints on the executive](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/judicial-constraints-on-the-executive-index), and [individual liberties and equality before the law](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/individual-liberties-and-equality-before-the-law-index).", "V-Dem covers many more countries since 1900, which affects regional averages.", "We provide two kinds of regional averages: **country averages** and **population-weighted averages**. Country averages weigh each country equally and give a sense of how the typical country is doing. Population-weighted averages weigh countries with larger populations more and therefore better reflect the average person's experience."], "origins": [{"id": 3412, "titleSnapshot": "V-Dem Country-Year (Full + Others)", "title": "Democracy report", "description": "The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project publishes data and research on democracy and human rights.\n\nIt acknowledges that democracy can be characterized differently and measures electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian characterizations of democracy.\n\nThe project relies on evaluations by around 3,500 country experts and supplementary work by its researchers to assess political institutions and the protection of rights.\n\nThe project is managed by the V-Dem Institute, based at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.\n\nThis snapshot contains all 531 V-Dem indicators and 245 indices + 60 other indicators from other data sources.\n\nFor more information, please refer to https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/", "producer": "V-Dem", "citationFull": "Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Fabio Angiolillo, Michael Bernhard, Agnes Cornell, M. Steven Fish, Linnea Fox, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerl\u00f8w, Adam Glynn, Ana Good God, Sandra Grahn, Allen Hicken, Katrin Kinzelbach, Joshua Krusell, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Juraj Medzihorsky, Natalia Natsika, Anja Neundorf, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Johannes von R\u00f6mer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Aksel Sundstr\u00f6m, Marcus Tannenberg, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Felix Wiebrecht, Tore Wig, Steven Wilson and Daniel Ziblatt. 2025. \"V-Dem [Country-Year/Country-Date] Dataset v15\" Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemds25\n\nPemstein, Daniel, Kyle L. Marquardt, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Juraj Medzihorsky, Joshua Krusell, Farhad Miri, and Johannes von R\u00f6mer. 2025. \u201cThe V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data\u201d. V-Dem Working Paper No. 21. 10th edition. University of Gothenburg: Varieties of Democracy Institute.;\n\nCoppedge et al. (2015), 'Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data', V-Dem Working Paper Series 2015(6)", "versionProducer": "v15", "urlMain": "https://v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/", "dateAccessed": "2025-03-17", "datePublished": "2025-03-13", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}