{"id":12447,"date":"2020-03-30T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12447"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:10:20","slug":"autocracy-rising-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12447","title":{"rendered":"Autocracy Rising in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute just released their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v-dem.net\/media\/filer_public\/f0\/5d\/f05d46d8-626f-4b20-8e4e-53d4b134bfcb\/democracy_report_2020_low.pdf\">Democracy Report 2020<\/a> and the picture isn&#8217;t pretty for the USA. We&#8217;re still considered an electoral democracy, the highest category, but are falling fast. Below are the charts showing the data for countries around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.26-AM-746x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.26-AM-746x1024.png 746w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.26-AM-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.26-AM-768x1054.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.26-AM-1119x1536.png 1119w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.26-AM-1492x2048.png 1492w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.26-AM.png 1816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.39-AM-746x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.39-AM-746x1024.png 746w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.39-AM-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.39-AM-768x1054.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.39-AM-1119x1536.png 1119w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.39-AM-1492x2048.png 1492w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-10.04.39-AM.png 1816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re in red because our scores have declined by a statistically significant amount. You can see the the confidence intervals around last year&#8217;s score (in grey) and this year&#8217;s score (in red) do not overlap. V-Dem uses experts in each country to evaluate levels of liberal democracy but then uses a variety of methods to adjust for factors like different standards across countries to assure that the measurements are comparable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute just released their Democracy Report 2020 and the picture isn&#8217;t pretty for the USA. We&#8217;re still considered an electoral democracy, the highest category, but are falling fast. Below are the charts showing the data for countries around the world. We&#8217;re in red because our scores have declined by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autocracy Rising in the United States<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2314],"tags":[2313],"class_list":["post-12447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","tag-v-dem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3eL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12455,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions\/12455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}