Democracy is a complex concept. It has to do with elections. It has to do with legislatures. It has to do with civil society organizations and courts and political styles of politicians. There's a lot packed into the concept and it's multidimensional, because some of these components don't move together.

Michael Coppedge

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Michael Coppedge is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, a principal investigator of the Varieties of Democracy project, and a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He is a coeditor (along with Amanda Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Staffan Lindberg) of Why Democracies Develop and Decline.

Key Highlights

• Democracy as a multidimensional concept
• How the conditions for democratization differ from those for backsliding
• Ways researchers use information from V-Dem to discover new insights about democracy
• New findings from V-Dem research regarding presidentialism, party system institutionalization, and anti-system parties
• How has V-Dem changed research about democracy

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