Despite the general narrative that the world is in a period of democratic decline, there have
been surprisingly few empirical studies that assess whether this is systematically true. Most …

Background Understanding the threat posed by anti-vaccination efforts on social media is
critically important with the forth coming need for world wide COVID-19 vaccination …

Less than 30 years after Fukuyama and others declared liberal democracy's eternal
dominance, a third wave of autocratization is manifest. Gradual declines of democratic …

–For v11 there was a mistake in aggregating a number of A and A* variables from country-
date to country-year by using the wrong aggregation method, most often using maximum …

Politicians' engagement with climate change is the focus of an emerging literature, but this
research has not been subjected to systematic analysis. To address this important gap, we …

Online disinformation is considered a major challenge for modern democracies. It is widely
understood as misleading content produced to generate profits, pursue political goals, or …

We are pleased to present the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute's seventh annual
Democracy Report 2023: Defiance in the Face of Autocratization. Readers of the report will …

This article introduces a novel conceptualization of democratic resilience-a two-stage
process where democracies avoid democratic declines altogether or avert democratic …

The Digital Society Survey, designed by the Digital Society Project, contains questions
pertaining to the political environment of the internet and social media. The data collected …

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