Call for Papers and Panels

We invite submissions for papers and panel discussions that preferably use at least two of DEMSCORE’s following six data sources:

1. V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute:
   The world’s largest dataset on Democracy. V-Dem is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy by providing a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset covering more than 450 indicators across 202 country units, from 1900 to today.
   
2. QoG (Quality of Government) Institute:
   QoG’s award-winning datasets focus on concepts related to quality of government, transparency, and public administration. The main objective of QoG’s research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained.
   
3. UCDP (Uppsala Conflict Data Program) and VIEWS (The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System):
   The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years. The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) offers a novel integration of isolated causal factors – identified through decades of peace research – into a theoretically and methodologically consistent forecasting system that is further informed by conflict data spanning nearly 30 years in time.
   
4. COMPLAB (Comparative Policy Laboratory):
   COMPLAB is a data infrastructure run in collaboration between Stockholm University and Uppsala University. The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database provides the foundations for new comparative and longitudinal research on the causes and consequences of welfare states. Besides data on social policy, COMPLAB also services the research community with comparative and longitudinal data on environmental policy and migration policy.
   
5. REPDEM (The Representative Democracy Data Archive):
   REPDEM presents the comparative data collection efforts undertaken by various research and data infrastructure projects on governments, parliaments, political parties, length of government formation periods, bargain rounds, procedures and mechanisms for intra-coalition governance, and government duration and termination.
   
6. H-DATA (The Historical Data Archive):
   The Historical Data Archive (H-DATA) is a hub of historical country-level data going as far back as the French Revolution or even further and offers unparalleled depth of data and temporality, enabling researchers to answer critical questions about the past but to also understand the origins of, and find historical parallels to, present-day problems.