Psephology
Quantitative scientific analysis of elections and balloting
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We include updates on Swing state, Voter turnout in United States presidential elections, List of United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote, List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin, Cook Partisan Voting Index, Ranked voting, List of United States presidential election results by state, Bradley effect, Missouri bellwether, V-Dem Democracy Indices, Strategic voting, Polity data series, As Maine goes, so goes the nation, Rated voting, Shy Tory factor, List of elections involving vote splitting ... and more.
| 2024 |
V-Dem Democracy Indices
V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) published its 15th edition of Democracy Indices, ranking 179 countries on various democratic metrics including Electoral, Liberal, Egalitarian, Participatory, Deliberative, and overall democracy scores.
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| 2021 |
V-Dem Democracy Indices
The Digital Society Project completed its data coverage period, spanning from 2000 to 2021, providing comprehensive insights into digital society indicators over two decades.
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| 2020 |
V-Dem Democracy Indices
V-Dem index expanded to include more than 470 indicators, 82 mid-level indices, and 5 high-level indices, covering 202 polities from the period of 1789–2019.
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| February 2020 |
Polity data series
The Political Instability Task Force (PITF) sponsorship of the Polity data series ends in February.
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| 2019 |
V-Dem Democracy Indices
V-Dem launched the Digital Society Project, an annual report with 35 indicators assessing digital media and internet-related metrics across five key areas: disinformation, digital media freedom, state regulation of digital media, online media polarization, and online social cleavages.
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| 2018 |
Polity data series
Comprehensive global democracy and autocracy scoring was conducted for multiple countries using the Polity IV methodology, categorizing nations into regime types such as Full Democracy, Democracy, Open Anocracy, Closed Anocracy, and Autocracy.
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