Ewa Atanassow is a postdoctoral fellow at the Program for Constitutional Government at Harvard University’s Center for Government and International Studies.
In order to mark democracy’s progress and to inform policy, we need to be able to measure democracy in sufficient detail. The V-Dem Project aims to deliver exactly such a tool.
Authoritarian regimes around the world hold elections and manipulate them every step of the way. How do we understand and work around the challenges these regimes pose to what should…