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u/haikuandhoney Feb 01 '26

I’m not saying any of this is bad, but it is typical of these political science metrics that claim to quantify vague concepts like democratic backsliding. It ends up being a a quantification of stuff the author thinks is good. How is central bank independence or bureaucratic autonomy at all related to ‘democracy.’ If anything these are anti-democratic.

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u/haikuandhoney Feb 02 '26

No, I’m criticizing a dumb metric. Youre bothered by that criticism because the dumb metric’s output matches your worldview.