Risks to democracy and how to counter them

Synthesis by Kimberly Nicholas of the peer-reviewed paper "Dodging the autocratic bullet: Enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding" by Christoph M. Abels et al., 2024, Behavioral Public Policy. doi:10.1017/bpp.2024.43

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(1) Components and descriptions of democracy drawn from Lindberg et al., 2014, V-DEM. (2) Risk factors summarized from Abels et al., 2024, Table 2. See reference list in Abels et al., 2024 for additional sources.

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