Title Varieties of democracy : measuring two centuries of political change / Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam N. Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend- Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Story of Varieties of Democracy -- 1.1 Timing: V-Dem Emerged to Address the Need for Better Measures of Democracy -- 1.2 Inclusion -- 1.2.1 Thematic Expertise -- 1.2.2 Geographic Expertise -- 1.3 Collective and Deliberative Decision-Making with Decentralization -- 1.4 Professionalization -- 1.5 Funding -- 1.6 Plan of the Book -- 2 Conceptual Scheme -- 2.1 The Electoral Principle -- 2.2 The Liberal Principle 2.3 The Majoritarian Principle -- 2.4 The Consensual Principle -- 2.5 The Participatory Principle -- 2.6 The Deliberative Principle -- 2.7 The Egalitarian Principle -- 2.8 From Conceptualization to Measurement -- 2.9 Caveats and Clarifications -- 3 Data Collection -- 3.1 Countries -- 3.2 Data Formats -- 3.3 Coding Types -- 3.4 Databases and Software -- 3.4.1 The Research Database -- 3.4.2 Web-Based Coding and Administrative Interfaces -- 3.4.3 The Administrative Database and Tools -- 3.4.4 Website for Public Access -- 3.5 The Surveys and the Expert Coding Process 3.6 Cross-National Comparability: Bridge, Lateral, and Vignette Coding -- 3.7 Data Cleaning -- 3.8 Personnel -- 3.8.1 Confidentiality -- 3.8.2 Staff -- 3.9 Phases of Data Collection -- 3.10 International Collaborations to Produce Data -- 4 The Measurement Model and Reliability -- 4.1 Basic Notation -- 4.2 Modeling Expert Ratings -- 4.2.1 Differential Item Functioning -- 4.2.2 A Probability Model for Rater Behavior -- 4.2.3 Temporal Dependence and Observation Granularity -- 4.2.4 Prior Assumptions and Cross-National Comparability -- 4.2.5 Model Overview -- 4.3 Estimation and Computation 4.4 Products -- 4.4.1 Interval-Level Latent Trait Estimates -- 4.4.2 Difficulty and Discrimination Parameters -- 4.4.3 Ordinal-Scale Estimates -- 4.4.4 Linearized Ordinal-Scale Posterior Predictions -- 4.5 Graphical Illustration of the V-Dem Data -- 4.6 Discussion and Future Plans -- 5 Dimensions and Components of Democracy -- 5.1 The Electoral Principle: Polyarchy -- 5.1.1 Measuring the Parts: Five Components of Polyarchy -- 5.1.2 Measuring the Whole: Aggregating the Components -- 5.1.3 Empirical Patterns -- 5.2 The Liberal Principle 5.2.1 Measuring the Parts: Three Components of Liberal Democracy -- 5.2.2 Measuring the Whole: Aggregating the Components -- 5.2.3 Empirical Patterns -- 5.3 The Participatory Principle -- 5.3.1 Measuring the Parts: Three Components of Participatory Democracy -- 5.3.2 Measuring the Whole: Aggregating the Components -- 5.3.3 Empirical Patterns -- 5.4 The Deliberative Principle -- 5.5 The Egalitarian Principle -- 5.5.1 Measuring the Parts: Three Components of Egalitarian Democracy -- 5.5.2 Measuring the Whole: Aggregating the Components -- 5.5.3 Empirical Patterns Summary "Varieties of Democracy, or "V-Dem," is a global research project producing new measures of hundreds of attributes of democracy as far back as 1789 for many countries, and for almost all countries around the world from 1900 to the present. This book is a reference guide for anyone who wants to use V-Dem data wisely. It provides full information about the concepts that the data measure, what we know about the validity and reliability of the data, what it reveals about the structure of democracy and the general trends in democratization over the past 229 years, as well as why this explosion of information is likely to raise the standards for causal inferences in democratization research. The V-Dem team and others are already producing a series of publications and papers leveraging the distinctive strengths of these new data, so this book also calls attention to some of those first fruits"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 22, 2020) Subject Democracy -- History Democratization -- History Democracy -- Research -- Methodology Democratization -- Research -- Methodology Democracy -- Mathematical models Democratization -- Mathematical models Democracy Democracy -- Mathematical models Democratization Democratization -- Mathematical models Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Gerring, John, 1962- author. Glynn, Adam, author Knutsen, Carl Henrik, author Lindberg, Staffan I., 1969- author. Pemstein, Daniel, author Seim, Brigitte, author Skaaning, Svend-Erik, author Teorell, Jan, author LC no. 2019040391 ISBN 9781108347860 110834786X

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