See the project here. ## Overview The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is an attempt to measure and conceptualize democracy throughout the world. With a global team of over 50 social scientists, they put forth five high-level indicators of democracy (scale 0-1, low-high):
- Electoral: Are rulers responsive to citizens? Is there electoral competition?
- Liberal: Are individual & minority rights protected? Are limits placed on the government?
- Participatory: To what extent do citizens participate in political processes?
- Deliberative: Are political descisions motivated by the public good?
- Egalitatrian: Do inequities hurt the ability of citizens from participating in government?
This was built by me, Ryan Cooper, and Kristina Randrup.
Tech stack
Data was prepared in Python. Most of the vizualition is done with Leaflet, but if you choose to view country-level data by population (under the advanced menu), then the application utilizes d3.
Sources: - V-Dem datasets