Love Data Week: Data for Studying the Quality of Elections and Democracy

Description

As part of Love Data Week, Data Services is hosting a tutorial on Data for Studying the Quality of Elections and Democracy, presented by Bryce Corrigan, senior statistician and lecturer, SNF Agora Institute.

Scholars of democracy have witnessed a worldwide surge in phenomena undermining it in recent years, sounding the alarm most recently over former president Donald Trump and his partisans' disinformation campaign to undermine electoral integrity and foment insurrection. In this session, I will introduce how scholars measure the quality of elections and liberal democracy and the use of several publicly available datasets. In looking at these data, we will see how they reflect (or fail to reflect) democracy as we might conceive of it and also how they can aide us in grasping changes, fast and slow, born out of sociopolitical, economic, and technological forces.

Love Data Week is an international celebration of data hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). The purpose of Love Data Week is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data analysis, management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services.