Estimating Levels of Subnational Democracy in Colombia using Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) and Local Empirical Data

• In Event: Autocratization and Democratic Backsliding

Brief Overview

We develop a novel approach for estimating levels of subnational democracy using surveys from the Varieties of Democracy dataset in combination with empirical within-country data. We demonstrate by offering estimates for Colombia between 2000-2020.

Authors

• Patrick L McQuestion, University of Notre Dame

• Michael J. Coppedge, University of Notre Dame

• Kelly McMann, Case Western Reserve University

• Matthew Sisk, University of Notre Dame