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Democratic backsliding [a] is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
Bright Line surveys from the University of Chicago have taken frequent measurements on attitudes around democracy in the US from political scientists and a representative sample of the public, and have shown democratic decline consistent with V-Dem and the Economist Democracy Index. [122] [114]
The V-Dem Institute's 2020 report found that the U.S. had "registered a substantial decline in liberal democracy" under Trump; the report also found that "the United States of America is the only country in Western Europe and North America suffering from substantial autocratization." [27]
For much of the last four years, Democrats have warned Americans about the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy. From the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to his phone call telling Georgia’s Secretary of ...
The survey comes at the end of a campaign where both sides have said the other is bad for democracy. The survey included 2,516 voters nationally and was conducted from Oct. 20 to 23. The margin of ...
The news media has treated attacks on democracy as just another partisan debate “Because the news media tries to cover both parties equally critically, the story of U.S. politics today is often ...
Levitsky and Ziblatt accept the fear of the Trump presidency as legitimate and pledge for the protection of the democracy. Particularly the last chapter saving democracy, put emphasis on political recommendations to save democracy in a pledge: "We must be humble and bold. We must learn from other countries to see the warning signs.
American decline is the idea that the United States is diminishing in power on a relative basis geopolitically, militarily, financially, economically, and technologically. It can also refer to absolute declines demographically, socially, morally, spiritually, culturally, in matters of healthcare, and/or on environmental issues .