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Don't miss the opportunity! Deadline for applications at DEMSCORE coming up this Sunday, April 12.
Application information: https://www.demscore.se/about/internships/

Internship at DEMSCORE Fall 2026 👈
Are you a student with a strong interest in data-driven research within the field of social science? Apply now for an internship at DEMSCORE during the fall semester 2026.

📅Application deadline: April 12

More information and application: https://www.demscore.se/about/internships/

The internship program has a duration of 20 weeks and will take place at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

DEMSCORE version 7 is out! What is new?
Explore the new data at https://www.demscore.se/data/

DEMSCORE v7 includes new datasets from VIEWS:
🔹VIEWS PRIO-GRID-Month Conflict Predictions (Last Input Data: September 2025-January 2026)
🔹VIEWS Country-Month Conflict Predictions (Last Input Data: September 2025-January 2026)

DEMSCORE v7 also includes:
🔹Updated MIGPOL MIPEX dataset from
🔹Updated OECD and Standard datasets from QoG - Quality of Government Institute
🔹Updated Basic, Party, and Potential Government datasets from
🔹Updated V-Dem dataset v16, and Episodes of Regime Transformation Dataset from V-Dem Institute.

Coming very soon: DEMSCORE Data version 7.0 released March 25th!
The DEMSCORE version 7.0 release includes the most recent data updates from , , QoG - Quality of Government Institute, V-Dem Institute , and .

March 22 for paper abstracts and panel propsals for the DEMSCORE Conference 2026 👈

Submit your paper abstract or panel proposal here: https://www.demscore.se/events/demscore-conference/demscore-conference-2026/call-for-papers-and-panels/

We invite submissions for presentations and panel discussions, preferably using at least two of DEMSCORE’s data sources.

Internship at DEMSCORE Fall 2026 👈
Are you a student with a strong interest in data-driven research within the field of social science? Apply now for an internship at DEMSCORE during the fall semester 2026.

📅Application deadline: April 12

More information and application: https://www.demscore.se/about/internships/

The internship program has a duration of 20 weeks and will take place at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

👉 Registation Open for DEMSCORE Conference 2026
Join us in Gothenburg for the 4th DEMSCORE Conference! Registration is now open on the DEMSCORE website: https://www.demscore.se/events/demscore-conference/demscore-conference-2026/

📅 Registration deadline is May 22

Did you already send in your paper abstract or panel proposal? If not, the deadline is March 22. For more information, see the link to the DEMSCORE website above.

The December edition of the Demscore Newsletter is out. 📬
In this issue, we look back at 2025 and offer a preview of what’s coming in 2026.
Read the newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/demscore/newsletter_december_2025
Subscribe here: https://demscore.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=fcde37d0930d9c2df346e3815&id=203d2641be

See you again next year! Until then, we wish you happy and peaceful holidays.🎄

📢 Call for Papers and Panels DEMSCORE Conference 2026
We invite submissions for presentations and panel discussions, preferably using at least two of DEMSCORE’s data sources (see below).

🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: March 22, 2026.

Read more: https://www.demscore.se/events/demscore-conference/demscore-conference-2026/call-for-papers-and-panels/

Data Sources
(Varieties of Democracy) is the world’s largest dataset on Democracy and a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. It provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset with more than 450 indicators across 202 countries, from 1900 to today.
https://www.demscore.se/partners/varieties-of-democracy-v-dem/

The Quality of Government Institute: ’s datasets focus on the quality of government, transparency, and public administration, to adress the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained.
https://www.demscore.se/partners/qog/

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program 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.
https://www.demscore.se/partners/ucdpviews/

The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System offers an integration of isolated causal factors into a theoretically and methodologically consistent forecasting system that is further informed by conflict data spanning nearly 30 years in time.
https://www.demscore.se/partners/ucdpviews/

The Comparative Policy Laboratory is a research infrastructure that provides vital policy data across 3 different policy strands: environmental-, social-, and migration policy. COMPLAB integrates 3 advanced data infrastructures: GRACE, MIGPOL, and SPIN.
https://www.demscore.se/partners/complab/

The Representative Democracy Data Archive presents comparative data from research & data infrastructure projects on for example governments, parliaments, political parties, length of government formation periods, government duration & termination.
https://www.demscore.se/partners/repdem

The Historical Data Archive is a hub of historical country-level data going as far back as the French Revolution. It enables researchers to answer questions about the past and understand the origins and find historical parallels to present-day problems.
https://www.demscore.se/partners/h-data/

Save the Date: DEMSCORE Conference 2026
The fourth DEMSCORE Conference will take place in Gothenburg on June 8–9, 2026.

The DEMSCORE Conference brings together researchers and scholars from diverse fields within the social sciences to explore the potential of data-driven research in understanding contemporary political, social, and economic challenges.

The lunch-to-lunch event will feature panel discussions and workshops presenting research findings, methodological developments, version 7 of the DEMSCORE platform, and much more.

More information: https://www.demscore.se/events/demscore-conference/demscore-conference-2026/

Did you know that you can generate your own personal dataset by downloading individual variables through ?
Here are the top 5 most downloaded variables in the last 30 days:

1️⃣ Electoral Democracy Index - from V-Dem Country-Year: V-Dem Full+Others v15
2️⃣ Number of leader transitions in the year - from QoG OECD Dataset Time-Series
3️⃣ Party seats upper chamber: Party 1 - from REPDEM Basic
4️⃣ Patriotic education in the curriculum - from V-Dem Coder-Level v15
5️⃣ Number of years the leader in office continuously - from QoG OECD Dataset Time-Series

To download your variable(s) of choice, use the Demscore download interface option "Generate Dataset by Individual Variables": https://www.demscore.se/data_analysis/menu_all_variables

PS: You can find the full top 10 on the Demscore website.

📢 New Thematic dataset: 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
The v6 update comes with a new thematic dataset on Laws and Liberties. Available for free at the Demscore website: https://www.demscore.se/data/thematic-datasets/thematic-datasets-laws-and-liberties/

The new thematic dataset provides researchers and policymakers with comprehensive, high-quality data on political and personal rights of citizens, the independence of the judiciary, and indicators on the impartial provision of justice.

Combining data from across the Demscore modules, the dataset includes variables related to the rule of law and civil liberties, for example access to justice, access to information, protection from governmental overreach, political influence on the judiciary, general rights, and equality before the law.

📢 Out Now! DEMSCORE v6
The Demscore version 6 update includes the new annual release v25.1, updated Basic datasets, monthly updates until August 2025, and a new thematic dataset on Laws and Liberties.

The Conflict Onsets datasets from Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) are back in Demscore with the v6 update. They contain variables recording onsets of new armed conflict and re-starts of previously active armed conflict after periods of inactivity.

The new v6 data from the Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) includes predictions for the number of fatalities in impending conflict for September 2025 to August 2028, updated in August 2025.

The included updates of the Representative Democracy Data Archive (REPDEM) Basic dataset expands the available data to September 2025, incorporating new government terminations and formations. It also adds two new variables, respectively recording the cabinet seat share for each party in a cabinet, and the share of ministers for each party in a cabinet.

We invite you to make good use of the updated data, available for download at the website: https://www.demscore.se/data/