It has all the charts from above, additional visualizations, and writing on how researchers deal with the many challenges of measuring conflicts and the deaths from them.
I am grateful to the many researchers who create the conflict data we use across our work @OurWorldInData.
Special thanks to @UCDP, whose data we use for our main visualizations, and my colleague @JoeHasell for creating the charts themselves.
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It provides several hundred interactive visualizations from eight leading democracy datasets.
A 🧵about what it includes:
Democracy data can be difficult to access and understand.
The Democracy Data Explorer therefore provides and explains data from eight datasets: RoW, V-Dem, the Lexical Index, Boix-Miller-Rosato, Polity, Freedom House, EIU and BTI.
To help you in choosing which dataset may be best to answer your questions, I have written a brief explainer that summarizes and compares all approaches here: ourworldindata.org/democracies-me…
To some young (and even older) people living in democracies, authoritarianism may seem like a long-forgotten part of their country’s history.
But this impression does not match people’s experiences across the world.
To put a date on how old democracies are worldwide, I use the Regimes of the World-classification from @AnnaLuehrmann, @mtannenberg, and @StaffanILindber and data from @vdeminsitute, going as far back as 1789. I describe this data in another article: bit.ly/3DoqhyV
Social scientists have long studied — and often found — that leftist governments pursue different policies than rightist governments (read a recent summary here: bit.ly/3yNHzVn). But this research has mainly focused on OECD countries, neglecting other parts of the world.
This focus on OECD countries in part is because researchers often use off-the-shelf datasets which only provide data on the ideologies of leaders and parties in OECD countries. This is where my GLI dataset comes in.