Quality of Democracy

Q-Dem is a research group of the Universitat de Barcelona and the IBEI aimed to develop analysis and to create data to better understand the functioning of democracy.

Research lines

Political Representation

Interest Groups

Parliamentary Activity

Transparency

Europeanization

Social Media

Datasets

Q-Dem has developed datasets to explain how and why some issues get into the political agenda across time, countries, policy venues and levels of governance.

Check our Datasets

Infographics

Some figures on our most relevant datasets, with the purpose of visualizing in a more comprehensive way the type of data we have compiled.

Check Q-Dem’s Computer graphics

Research Team

Q-Dem team brings together researchers from the Universitat de Barcelona and the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, IBEI, which collaborate on a regular basis with other researchers and research projects in Europe and in the United States