Wow, what great timing, I wrote about this today: https://acoup.blog/2020/10/30/fireside-friday-october-30-2020/ … This only holds true if you use the artificially small modern democracy sample; get into ancient democracies, this 'emprical matter' turns on its head and we see that democratic deconsolidation was common.https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1322203799008743430 …
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As someone who dabbled briefly in PoliSci before falling to the dark side of theoretical math, I like to think my professors tried to avoid this by including some African/South American sources. But I have heard this particular claim bouncing around a lot
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And it's nice to now have a go-to counterpoint/rebuttal, I will say! So, I'm grateful for this posting. ... Now that I think of it, one of the profs who assigned a lot of those South American/African case studies _also_ was a bit more worried about democratic backsliding
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Doesn't Europe show how easily democracies can be turned by a handful of bad-faith actors? Also I wish experts would stop repeating the claim that US is a (consolidated) democracy. It fails more benchmarks than it meets for modern democracy.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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