Great thread on a fascinating paper. I learned a lot reading both.

RT @[email protected]

Congrats to @[email protected] & @[email protected] on a valuable new paper challenging the near-consensus that we're in a period of democratic decline. It's worth reading the thread & paper. But two points in response before anyone concedes the threat is over-hyped. /1 https://twitter.com/annemeng_/status/1615746297885036545

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mkmdem/status/1615802807075934226

New paper with @annemeng: "Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding." Short version is that when focusing on objective measures that don't rely on subjective coder judgement, we find little evidence of a global democratic decline in recent years.

https://osf.io/n32zk/