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Version 16 of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), March 2026 Michael Coppedge (18508809) John Gerring (3701647) Carl Henrik Knutsen (831238) Staffan I. Lindberg (4418830) Jan Teorell (4677526) david altman (20989377) Fabio Angiolillo (21011874) Michael Bernhard (832910) Agnes Cornell (8706291) M, Steven Fish (21011877) linnea fox (20989369) Lisa Gastaldi (17550081) Haakon Gjerløw (5192108) Adam Glynn (17548011) Ana Good God (21011882) Allen HICKEN (13820941) Katrin Kinzelbach (21011917) Joshua Krusell (17556720) Kyle L. Marquardt (17550078) Kelly McMann (17548023) Valeriya Mechkova (14180114) juraj medzihorsky (20989366) Anja Neundorf (21011971) Pamela Paxton (21011972) Daniel Pemstein (21011973) Josefine Pernes (25031662) Johannes von Römer (21011991) Brigitte Seim (21011997) Rachel Sigman (21012000) Svend-Erik Skaaning (21012001) Jeffrey Staton (21012003) Aksel Sundström (21012014) Marcus Tannenberg (21012020) Eitan Tzelgov (21012026) Yi-Ting Wang (21012028) Tore Wig (21012071) Steven Wilson (22200514) Daniel Ziblatt (21012081) Political science Comparative government and politics International relations Political theory and political philosophy Citizenship Political science not elsewhere classified democracy democratization political instituitions elections civil liberties Conceptions of democracy international democracy liberal democracies Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) <p dir="ltr">Version 16 of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset provides multidimensional measures of democracy across countries and over time. The dataset contains several hundred indicators measuring political institutions and practices, including measures related to elections, civil liberties, freedom of expression, rule of law, executive constraints, political participation, and other dimensions of democratic governance. V-Dem's democracy indices aggregate multiple indicators to measure distinct concepts of democracy, with many indicators based on assessments provided by multiple country experts and combined using V-Dem's measurement model. Version 16 includes data through 2025, including scores for 179 countries for that year.</p> 2026-09-17T15:57:37Z Dataset Dataset 10.7274/33897706.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Version_16_of_the_Varieties_of_Democracy_V-Dem_March_2026/33897706 All Rights Reserved