Project Managers (PMs) Along with the PIs, the Project Managers were instrumental in the development of survey questions and the preparation of the collection of data in specific substantive areas. [...] In the early years of Varieties of Democracy, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame was one of the two founding institutional homes for the project. [...] 7 4 The V-Dem Infrastructure Being the executive arm of V-Dem, the staff at the V-Dem Institute is responsible for many of the V-Dem data operations. [...] • The network of more than 4,200 Country Experts across the world providing the raw data, as well as the staff operating and maintaining the infrastructure is the very core of the infrastructure. [...] With the support of Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Sweden), the Vice-Chancellor’s Office, the College of social Sciences, and the Department of Political Sci- ence at University of Gothenburg, and the Kellogg Institute and other bodies at the University of Notre Dame, a pilot study was conducted in twelve countries from May to December 2011.
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