Our IfD faculty members and affiliates Jozef Michal Mintal, Kamila Borsekova, Vladimír Müller, Robert Vancel and Patrícia Šimková joined by Lorenzo Cicchi (EUI) and Kevin Deegan-Krause (Wayne State) have published their latest paper in the prestigious journal Scientific Data. The paper introduces an open-access dataset from the 2023 Slovak Parliamentary Elections, generated by the Volebný…
The BRRIDGE research project was featured at the ERSA 2024 congress on Regional Science Dialogues for Peace and Sustainable Development, held at the University of Azores. The conference gathered 872 attendees and presenters from 61 countries in Europe and beyond, who came together to discuss critical regional science issues, focusing on peace and sustainable development.…
In August 2023, Dr. Jozef Michal Mintal & Róbert Vancel representing the Institute for Democracy (IfD) attended the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference in Dublin, which took place from August 12th to 15th, 2024. The ECPR General Conference is a major international event in political science, bringing together scholars from around the…
There are very few issues in modern societies that are of greater significance and urgency than the threats to liberal democracy, the weakening and fragility of democratic institutions, and the crumbling of human rights, social justice and the rule of law. In our work we focus on four interrelated thematic challenges to democracy, namely: technology, inequalities, culture and governance; with our overall activities being concentrated around four key pillars:
The article introduces two datasets from the Volebný Kompas project: the first, is a collection of 134,699 voter responses on 39 key issues, obtained through the Volebný Kompas voting advisory application for the 2023 snap Slovak Parliamentary Elections. The second dataset details the positions of 11 political parties on the same issues. Together, they provide a comprehensive view of Slovakia’s political landscape before a pivotal election which resulted in a dramatic change in government composition. As freely available and validated resources, these datasets can serve as an essential tool for understanding and navigating the evolving landscape of post-socialist democracies.
