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John Gerring

John Gerring

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University of Texas at Austin · Political Science

Active 1994–2025

h-index64
Citations26.2k
Papers328121 last 5y
Funding$418k

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Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Political Science
  • Social Science
  • Sociology
  • Law
  • Demographic economics
  • Economics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Psychology
  • Positive economics

Selected publications

  • V-Dem [Country–year/country–date]:Dataset V11. 1

    2020 · 204 citations

    Varieties of Democracy is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), one of the most ambitious data collection efforts in comparative politics. This global research collaboration sparked a dramatic change in how we study the nature, causes, and consequences of democracy. This book is ambitious in scope: more than a reference guide, it raises standards for causal inferences in democratization research and introduces new, measurable, concepts of democracy and many po…

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  • V-Dem Codebook v11

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021 · 158 citations

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  • V-Dem Dataset v11.1

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021 · 116 citations

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  • V-Dem Codebook v14

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 79 citations

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  • Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding

    PS Political Science & Politics · 2024-01-11 · 40 citations

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    During the past decade, analyses drawing on several democracy measures have shown a global trend of democratic retrenchment. While these democracy measures use radically different methodologies, most partially or fully rely on subjective judgments to produce estimates of the level of democracy within states. Such projects continuously grapple with balancing conceptual coverage with the potential for bias (Munck and Verkuilen 2002; Przeworski et al. 2000). Little and Meng (L&M) (2023) reintro…

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Frequent coauthors

  • Daniel Pemstein

    University of Gothenburg

    294 shared

  • Michael Coppedge

    University of Notre Dame

    188 shared

  • Staffan I. Lindberg

    184 shared

  • Carl Henrik Knutsen

    University of Oslo

    181 shared

  • Brigitte Seim

    North Dakota State University

    150 shared

  • Kyle L. Marquardt

    Durham University

    145 shared

  • Amanda B. Edgell

    University of Alabama

    123 shared

  • Svend-Erik Skaaning

    Colorado State University

    89 shared

Education

  • PhD, Political Science

    University of California Berkeley

    1993

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