It’s summer and time for a well-earned rest. Why not spend it listening to a pod with professors Staffan I Lindberg or Michael Coppedge? Or for some light reading, maybe a few of our new working papers?
Here are a few suggestions.
Pods and Videos
LoungePodden - #186 Världens största demokratiforskning: Staffan I Lindberg, V-Dem Institute (in Swedish)
Democracy Paradox: Staffan Lindberg with a Report on Democracy in the World
Democracy Paradox: Michael Coppedge on Why Democracies Emerge, Why They Decline, and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
On YouTube - Hambach Democracy Dialogue 2023: Defending Democracy in Times of Multiple Crises
New Working Papers
Quality Assessment of the Academic Freedom Index: Strengths, Weaknesses, and How Best to Use It; Lars Pelke and Janika Spannagel
Chains in Episodes of Democratization; Kelly Morrison, Martin Lundstedt, Yuko Sato, Vanessa A. Boese-Schlosser, Klas Markström, and Staffan I. Lindberg
Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding; Carl Henrik Knutsen, Kyle L. Marquardt, Brigitte Seim, Michael Coppedge, Amanda Edgell, Juraj Medzihorsky, Daniel Pemstein, Jan Teorell, John Gerring, and Staffan I. Lindberg
How Lower Levels of Corruption in Democracies Prevented COVID Deaths; Kelly M. McMann and Daniel J. Tisch
Education Policies and Systems across Modern History: A Global Dataset; Adrián del Río, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Philipp M Lutscher
The Hidden Dimension in Democracy; Matthew C. Wilson, Karoline Wiesner, and Samuel Bien
We will see you again in August, until then, have a wonderful summer!