Comparative politics · data · method
Understanding how regimes change
Analysis, data and visualizations to study democracy and autocratization without giving up rigor.
Autocratic dynamics and democratic backsliding: what GDELT lets us see
How GDELT event data helps study protest, repression and authoritarian adaptation, and what the measurement leaves out.
What is autocratization?
The process through which a democracy loses checks and balances without a coup, and why the sequence matters as much as the outcome.
Varieties of democracy: how backsliding is measured
What V-Dem indices measure, how regimes are classified and why a change of 0.1 does not by itself signal democratic collapse.
Electoral and liberal democracy, 1975-2024
Two global series showing the third wave of autocratization and the gap between elections and liberal rights.
Comparing democratic profiles
A radar of the five V-Dem dimensions to compare countries and see what kind of democracy each one is.
The distribution of regimes, 2025
How many people live in closed autocracies, electoral autocracies, electoral democracies and liberal democracies.