In the northern hemisphere it’s summer and time for a well-earned rest. If you are among the over 84,000 people who already downloaded this year’s V-Dem Institute Democracy Report, we have a few other tips for your summer reading list!
Here are some of the the latest journal articles and working papers by the V-Dem team and fellows to bring to the beach.
Journal Articles
Croissant, A., & Lott, L. (2025). "Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis." Political Studies, 0(0).
(Previous V-Dem Working Paper 149)
Ordanoski, G., & Angiolillo, F. (2025). "Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization." Democratization, 1–24.
Weitzel, Daniel, John Gerring, Daniel Pemstein, and Svend-Erik Skaaning. 2025. “Measuring electoral democracy with observables.” American Journal of Political Science 1–17.
Povitkina, M., Jagers, S. C., Rydén, O., & Sjöstedt, M. (2025). "Political consequences of natural disasters: accidental democratization?" Democratization, 1-25.
(Previous V-Dem Working Paper 148)
Nord, M., Angiolillo, F., Good God, A., & Lindberg, S. I. (2025). "State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped?" Democratization, 1–26.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2025.2487825
Angiolillo F, Wiebrecht F, Lindberg SI. "Party Systems, Democratic Positions, and Regime Changes: Introducing the Party-System Democracy Index". British Journal of Political Science. 2025;55:e42.
Working papers
Amanda B. Edgell, Matthew C. Wilson, and Vanessa Boese-Schlosser (2025). “Introducing demstock: An R Package for Calculating Stock Variables Using the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Data”. V-Dem Working paper No. 153
David Randahl (2025). “Inexorable Force or Dying Wave? The long term trends of democratization and the third wave of autocratization”. V-Dem Working Paper No. 152
For a rainy day, we recommend checking out the V-Dem graphing tools to further explore the state of democracy in the world with the V-Dem data: https://v-dem.net/graphing/graphing-tools/
We wish you a happy and restful summer, see you again in August!