Analyses
Analyses
Short pieces connecting concepts, evidence and cases.
What is autocratization?
The process through which a democracy loses checks and balances without a coup, and why the sequence matters as much as the outcome.
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Autocratic dynamics and democratic backsliding: what GDELT lets us see
How GDELT event data helps study protest, repression and authoritarian adaptation, and what the measurement leaves out.
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Varieties of democracy: how backsliding is measured
What V-Dem indices measure, how regimes are classified and why a change of 0.1 does not by itself signal democratic collapse.
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