Nobel laureate & good friend @mariaressa.bsky.social on @thedailyshow.com The Daily Show, speaking with facts from #DemocracyReport2025. www.instagram.com/reel/DOywwsE...

I don't want to give false hope to anyone. But then, hope isn't false. It's a hope until it becomes reality. “52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns,increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. Vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"A key finding is that 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy."

Autocratization can be halted and reversed! We show that 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hope remains while the company is true. If anything, these are not very bright Orcs, and things got out of hand.

Trump? AfD? FPÖ?... Alles wird gut: "key finding is that 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on last 30 years. vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Let's hope this will hold in the near future too: "A key finding is that 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy."

This is encouraging: “A key finding is that 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📌“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

IF WE ARE DILIGENT, WE WILL WIN! 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, increasing to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy. #protest #50501Oregon #democracy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“A key finding is that 52% of all autocratization episodes [since the year 1900] become U-Turns [toward democratization], which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy.”

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Some hope and knowledge. Highlight “From 1900 to 2023, […] 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"A key finding is that 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A key finding is that 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’ll take it. “52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years.”

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Autocracy in the US. “declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” — a designation that does not actually exist under U.S. law.” Trump Signs Order Targeting Antifa Movement www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

Scotus enabling strengtening of autocracy in the US of A. Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire F.T.C. Commissioner www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸! #3 1. The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding (2023) by Larry Bartels, Ursula Daxecker, @sdhyde.bsky.social, @silindberg.bsky.social and Irfan Nooroding. (academic.oup.com/isr/article/...)

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

For my English-speaking friends: I judge that the US is no longer a democracy. Interview in major Swedish newspaper.

Professor: USA räknas inte längre som en demokrati

Published in late April, still relevant for current events. We said "democratic breakdown in the making". Now it has broken down. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thus speak dictators in the making www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/t...

Yes. Autocracy at work.

Periodically, throughout our history, the first amendment has been abused. But never like it is now. In fact, the freedom of expression we once took for granted is, for the moment at least, gone. It's future depends on us. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/rip-the-firs...

Yes. By international law, our governments are REQUIRED to act (also to prevent…). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#WP censorship

Trump’s Intimidation and efforts to censor media in the #USA escalates. Typical signs of an electoral autocracy. lnkd.in/eUsFBj5m

No…. Not UC Berkeley…. Which institutions in the #usa will stand up to the increasingly, blatantly authoritarisn #TrumpAdministration? UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

V-Dem Institute director Lindberg @silindberg.bsky.social (already in March, 2025): ""If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy" in the 2026 report. "If it continues like this, democracy [there] will not last another six months."" 1/6

Institutionalising self-censorship in major US private media? Seems like it... www.huffpost.com/entry/paramo...

By all facts on the ground I have observed, unfortunately my prediction has come true. It seems blatantly obvious that the US is now an electoral autocracy.

Getting uglier.... Autocracy is here. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

New 'Print/Distro-It-Yourself' tools for #GoodTroubleLivesOn *Portland anti-ICE @dissonanttimes.bsky.social *USA democracy backslide @silindberg.bsky.social+ *Battle of LA lessons @illwill.bsky.social *Strategy vs. USA fascism @chenoweth.bsky.social+ * @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social zines 🔗in bio

Sidenote: Elsewhere colleagues (incl @acrowinghen.bsky.social , @medzihorsky.bsky.social, @danpemstein.com, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @silindberg.bsky.social) and I find little evidence that bad-vibes among V-Dem’s country experts drive the recent global democratic decline. doi.org/10.1017/S104...

🎞️In this interview with #CartaCapital, V-Dem Institute Director @silindberg.bsky.social talks about the state of democracy in Latin America (+more): youtu.be/u-3emkqHgYk?... Interview in English w Portuguese subtitles #PoliSciSky #Polisky #PoliticalScience #Democracy #Autocratization #LatinAmerica

Staffan Lindberg Project 2025 tracker....anyone in doubt what is in the works? www.project2025.observer/en?fbclid=Iw...

Declaration of intent: "Democratic Party is a 'domestic, extremist organisation.'" If you think the US is still a democracy, open your eyes.

Yes, with the sothern drawl, no shit. www.instagram.com/reel/DLq-SbG...

@ ”They came for us…’ thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com/p/they-came-...

Says it all about the leanings of the Trump (authoritarian) regime in the #USA, doesn't it? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Proud of S America ream n @davidaltman.bsky.social

Proud of S America team n @davidaltman.bsky.social

➙ Más datos, más democracia!!!