Tag: Social Groups

Political Equality in V-Dem: “Power distributed by social group”

In a previous post, we discussed how the Varieties of Democracy “V-Dem” project measures “political equality.” V-Dem is an expert survey. They guide the expert-respondents’ attention to particular groups’ political equality. These groups are: (a) socioeconomic position, (b) social groups, (c) gender, and (d) sexual orientation. In this post, we discuss how they measure “Power…

September 30, 2022
Introducing PaReSoGo, Dataset on Party Representation of Social Groups

PaReSoGo at a Glance Why PaReSoGo – Party Representation of Social Groups? Parties and parliamentarians are charged with the responsibility to express and translate the voice of the masses in the legislature. A classic concern is the extent to which political parties who attained seats in parliament represent the masses; a smaller current in the…

December 9, 2020

Political Equality in V-Dem: “Power distributed by social group”