The US loses its status as a liberal democracy for the first time in 50 years. V-dem now classifies the US as an electoral democracy.
Claes de VreeseJust out: the new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social is clear: "The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history" V-dem uses a global dataset on democracy with over 32 million data points for 202 countries, from 1789 to 2025. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...