On the State of Democracy in the World before and after the Great Recession

Abstract: Much has been said about the impact of the Great Recession (2008-2009) on the conditions and foundations of democracy, especially in the Western world. But has it really been like this? Today we have various options to approach the comparative study of the state of democracy in the world through wide-ranging cross-sectional and longitudinal sections. Perhaps one of the most successful is that of Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), whose approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy is to provide a data set that attempts to reflect the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of government that includes, but it goes beyond the simple presence of elections. For this reason, the V-Dem project collects data to measure different principles of democracy, one of which is the electoral one. In principle, the main finding of this documentary effort leads its authors to affirm that "autocratization", a word with which they call the decrease in democratic features, has accelerated

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 25 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet

Erschienen in
Users working paper ; Bd. 47

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(wann)
2022
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Gothenburg
(wer)
University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science, V-Dem Institute
(wann)
2022
Urheber
Peña, Ricardo de la
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science, V-Dem Institute

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-79933-2
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Letzte Aktualisierung
14.08.2025, 11:02 MESZ

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Beteiligte

  • Peña, Ricardo de la
  • University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science, V-Dem Institute
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Entstanden

  • 2022

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