• ShinyApps and interactive dashboards to explore our datasets

I think ShinyApps and dashboards are great tools to explore and interactively work with new datasets which is why I developed the following applications along with our datasets: 

• The TOSCO ShinyDashboard provides data on ownership of Internet service providers (ISPs) and several applications to explore these ownership structures and state control over ISPs. 

• The ERT ShinyApp (put together with Sebastian Hellmeier) provides several interactive applications allowing users to flexibly adjust the parameters of the ERT dataset (see below) and test their validity.

• Episodes of Regime Transformation (ERT) 

Identifies episodes of democratization (liberalizing autocracy, democratic deepening) and autocratization (democratic regression, autocratic regression) in the most recent V-Dem dataset, the dataset is freely available here. We also provide the ERT R package as a user-friendly tool to flexibly work with the dataset. 

Citation: Edgell, Amanda B., Seraphine F. Maerz, Laura Maxwell, Richard Morgan, Juraj Medzihorsky, Matthew C. Wilson, Vanessa A. Boese, Sebastian Hellmeier, Jean Lachapelle, Patrik Lindenfors, Anna Lührmann, and Staffan I. Lindberg. Episodes of Regime Transformation Dataset (v13.0). Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project, 2024.

• Pandemic Backsliding

The Pandemic Backsliding project tracks state responses to Covid-19 and their potential effect on the overall quality of democracy within the country. The current version of the data reflects the situation between March 2020 and June 2021. The data  is freely available here, more information about the project here. 

Citation: Edgell, Amanda B., Anna Lührmann, Seraphine F. Maerz, Jean Lachapelle, Sandra Grahn, Ana Flavia Good God, Martin Lundstedt, Natalia Natsika, Palina Kolvani, Paul Bederke, Shreeya Pillai, Stefanie Kaiser, Abdalhadi Alijla, Tiago Fernandes, Hans Tung, Matthew Wilson, and Staffan I. Lindberg. Pandemic Backsliding: Democracy During Covid-19 (PanDem), Version 5, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project, 2020.

• Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), Version 11.1.

I contributed to Version 11.1. of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset. The V-Dem dataset includes the world's most comprehensive and detailed democracy ratings. The dataset and associated reference documents are freely available here. 

Together with a few colleagues, we put together the vdemdata R package as a user-friendly tool to work with the latest version of the V-Dem dataset. 

Citation: Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Agnes Cornell, M. Steven Fish, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerløw, Adam Glynn, Allen Hicken, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine F. Maerz, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Johannes von Römer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Aksel Sundström, Eitan Tzelgov, Luca Uberti, Yi-ting Wang, Tore Wig, and Daniel Ziblatt. V-Dem Codebook v11.1, https://www.v-dem.net/. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project, 2021.