>V-Dem seem to be redefining the word democracy somewhere here to mean something other than the demos being in charge of things. I agree that all this stuff is

>V-Dem seem to be redefining the word democracy somewhere here to mean something other than the demos being in charge of things. I agree that all this stuff is bad news but they're using the wrong word. The term is "illiberal" and the problem is a lack of personal freedom. Democracy is a technical concept about how decisions get made and is capable of doing some really evil and illiberal stuff in a perfectly democratic fashion. See: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defining-defending-democracy-contra https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defining-defending-democrac... tl;dr: >democracy isn’t just about having an election. It’s about having more than one election. >Imagine a system where the winner of a fair election gets unlimited authority during his term. What forces this person to ever hold another fair election? [...]