[Civsoc-mw] {Disarmed} FW: V-Dem Newsletter June 2019

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From: Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) <contact at v-dem.net> 
Sent: 28 June 2019 14:43

Subject: V-Dem Newsletter June 2019

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Newsletter June 2019

Call: New Country Experts 

V-Dem is searching for new Country Experts to assist with the next update in January 2020, willing to contribute to making the largest dataset on democracy even better in the future. In these times when democracy is at risk in many places, offer a few hours of your time, and contribute to the common good for science and international society!

The Role of a Country Expert: 

About half of the V-Dem data depends on evaluations by Country Experts - individuals with deep knowledge of a specific thematic area for a particular country, or set of countries.

We conduct annual updates of the V-Dem database. During these updates, most Country Experts work on one country, observed over the past several decades, and on one or two clusters of questions: (1) elections and political parties, (2) the executive, the legislature and deliberation, (3) judiciary, civil liberty and sovereignty, (4) civil society, media freedom and political equality, and (5) digital society, exclusion. The coding procedure is entirely web-based. The default language for the online surveys is English but the survey also available in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.

Country Experts get a remuneration for their work.

More information here:
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=890681061b&e=73e9266e16> https://www.v-dem.net/en/news/call-country-experts-v-dem-update-2020/

V-Dem Seminars Fall 2019 

The V-Dem Institute is on a regular basis organizing seminars focusing on various topics within the field of democracy research. Leading international scholars visit University of Gothenburg, Sweden to present their research. The seminars focus on topics such as democratization in different parts of the world, effects of democratization, electoral violence, persistence of inequality in new democracies etc.

The seminars are open for the general public and the venue for seminars is the V-Dem Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

List of seminars during the fall is available here: 
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=cfca5c2b6e&e=73e9266e16> https://www.v-dem.net/en/v-dem-institute/visiting-scholars/

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Announcements for APSA attendees 

Department of Political Science (University of Gothenburg), together with the V-Dem Institute, QoG and GLD-Gothenburg will participate in the APSA meeting 2019.

Dates: Thursday, August 29 – Saturday, August 31
Location: Marriot Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC 20008
Booth: 118

Want to meet our scholars?
Join us for a wine reception on Friday, August 30th at 16.30 outside booth #118!

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American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Events
Comparative Democratization Section
Washington, D.C.

Please join on Friday, August 30 for the Comparative Democratization Section's 

Graduate Student Meeting
5:30-6:30 pm, Hilton Shaw Hospitality Room

Business Meeting
6:30-7:30 pm, Hilton Shaw Hospitality Room  

Reception
7:30-9:30 pm, Buca di Beppo, 1825 Connecticut Avenue N.W. 
(a three-minute walk from the Hilton)

(Note that the section name will change to Democracy and Autocracy Section following the annual meeting) 

Job Alert 

📢 Job Alert | V-Dem is looking for an Operations & Outreach Manager.

The successful candidate takes on the role as Operations and Outreach Manager, which is one of the core functions at the V-Dem institute. By being part of the V-Dem team as well as by attending seminars and international academic conferences, you will be able to stay up to date on the latest research findings and interact with world leading scholars in the field of social science.

The Operations and Outreach Manager is involved in most parts of the V-Dem Institute’s activities. This includes coordinating and working with the annual data collection cycle, outreach and communication, website management, organization of conferences and events, etc.

Qualifications
We are looking for a candidate with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, communications or similar. An advanced degree in Social Science, communications or similar is meritorious. You need to have experience of coordination in a complex environment including prioritization of tasks with competing deadlines. Experience of working with outreach activities is an advantage, this includes experience of working with marketing, graphic design, website administration, social media, and events planning as well as drafting of high-quality texts targeting practitioner/policy audiences. Skills in using the Office software packages, Adobe Indesign, and/or FileMakerPro are advantages. Previous experience of working in a research project with large-scale data collection processes is meritorious.

Application deadline: August 4th

If you're interested in joining our team at the University of Gothenburg, apply here:  <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=d8c1ca62fd&e=73e9266e16> https://bit.ly/2FtT9dQ. 

Publications 

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"Civil Society and the Democratic Peace"

by Håvard Hegre, Michael Bernhard, Jan Teorell
Journal of Conflict Resolution

 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=7b0c64f1fe&e=73e9266e16> https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002719850620 

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”Building Impartial Electoral Management? Institutional Design, Independence and Electoral Integrity” 

by Carolien van Ham and Holly Ann Garnett
International Political Science Review

 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=647ce32ed9&e=73e9266e16> https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512119834573 

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"Reconsidering African Elections"

by Carolien van Ham, Staffan I. Lindberg
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=3c617bfc9a&e=73e9266e16> In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press 

V-Dem Working Paper 

 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=426ee98485&e=73e9266e16> 

Generalized Nonlinear Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences

Authors: Adam Glynn, Nahomi Ichino

University of Gothenburg, Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 90. June 2019

You may download it by clicking on the icon to the left.

 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=8cd3dbac87&e=73e9266e16> FASDEM Working Paper. 

V-Dem Users' Working Paper 

 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=f024309604&e=73e9266e16> 

Mexico: Political Change and Delegative Democracy

Author: Armando Chaguaceda

University of Gothenburg, Varieties of Democracy Institute: Users' Working Paper No. 21. June 2019

You may download it by clicking on the icon to the left.

New Staff at the V-Dem Institute 

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Amanda Edgell 
V-Dem PostDoc
Email:  <mailto:amanda.edgell at v-dem.net%C2%A0> amanda.edgell at v-dem.net

Amanda's research broadly focuses on political institutions in authoritarian settings, as well as, international norms, foreign aid, and gender politics. Amanda received a PhD in Political Science at the University of Florida in 2019 and also holds a Master’s in International Affairs from Texas A&M University (2011) and a Bachelor’s in Political Science from Appalachian State University (2008). Amanda joined V-Dem under  <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=dc535a263b&e=73e9266e16> FASDEM project. 

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Garry Hindle
Program & Financial Manager
Email:  <mailto:garry.hindle at v-dem.net> garry.hindle at v-dem.net

Previously Garry worked for a defence and security think tank and in various government and private sector roles. At V-Dem, Garry takes the role of Program & Financial Manager replacing Josefine Pernes for about a year. Garry will have an overall responsibility for and management of the Institute’s activities, financial management, coordination of the data collection processes and procedures relating to the V-Dem data.

V-Dem in News 

"V-Dem: A third wave of autocratization now affects 24 countries”
Democracy Without Borders, 2019-06-24
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=c2a67c5b9a&e=73e9266e16> https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/7404/v-dem-a-third-wave-of-autocratization-now-affects-24-countries/

“Dictatorships always a step away from legitimacy crisis”
Democracy Digest, 2019-06-24
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=219cda782d&e=73e9266e16> https://www.demdigest.org/dictatorships-always-a-step-away-from-legitimacy-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR30-TOTJqS9619BAx4TmKlsPGoECgEfAiKmmEFOKQSZz_aILXXlqfug-Ek

“Democracy still rules – for now”
Mail&Fuardian, 2019-06-21
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=fed2cf41c1&e=73e9266e16> https://mg.co.za/article/2019-06-21-00-democracy-still-rules-for-now

“Challenge to democracies: Elected autocracy on the rise”
The Himalayan Times, 2019-06-18
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=2648e6c136&e=73e9266e16> https://thehimalayantimes.com/opinion/challenge-to-democracies-elected-autocracy-on-the-rise/

“La participation locale, assurance contre l’autocratie”
Swissinfo, 2019-05-28
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=96e66124b4&e=73e9266e16> https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/democratiedirecte/démocratie-dans-le-monde_la-participation-locale--assurance-contre-l-autocratie/44985756?fbclid=IwAR16vV-W4JHq66WF41V9S7T7R2ce9_c8mRsGb81m-jQ0CqAxXd1BQa9nt6g

“Brasil vive “erosão” democrática, alerta instituto sueco”
Jamil Chade, blogosfera, Brazil, 2019-05-25
 <https://v-dem.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f5c21a3443625684cc7474b9&id=12e4348f68&e=73e9266e16> https://jamilchade.blogosfera.uol.com.br/2019/05/25/brasil-vive-erosao-democratica-alerta-instituto-sueco/ 

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