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Our analysis highlights two measures of governance that have diverged in recent years

Democratic backsliding denotes an erosion of the norms and institutions that support and allows democratic systems to function

The paper 'Subjective and Objective Measures of Democratic Backsliding', by associate professors Andrew Little from the University of California at Berkeley, and Anne Meng of the University of Virginia, says that despite the general narrative that we are in a period of global democratic decline, there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to assess whether this is systematically true

Until fairly recently, that would have seemed like a peculiar question. But many experts on American history and political science say U.S. democracy is relatively young.

The most prominent and widely cited of these, the V-Dem indices, show that the share of autocracies has been rising sharply over the past decade.