Your link for “The V-Dem Institute’s tracker” does not point to that, it points to DWB which is giving its own take on a link to the V-Dem Institute, which in turn is broken so I can’t check it. This might be the one intended: https://www.v-dem.net/documents/12/dr_2021.pdf ?
Umberto Eco’s list is extremely low quality. Several of its items are stock traits of bad government; if you mean bad government you should say “bad government” and not “fascism”. Eco is a rhetorician, please stop citing him as though he’s a political scientist.
I think this post is engaged in significant sleight of hand, between claims that a dictator will murder thousands of people, and claims that an abstract rating will decrease below X points. This is aggravated by the fact that the bet has a clause for “If The Economist Democracy Index [...] significantly changes its methodology” when to my knowledge the EDI does not publish its methodology other than a very brief summary.
Your link for “The V-Dem Institute’s tracker” does not point to that, it points to DWB which is giving its own take on a link to the V-Dem Institute, which in turn is broken so I can’t check it. This might be the one intended: https://www.v-dem.net/documents/12/dr_2021.pdf ?
Umberto Eco’s list is extremely low quality. Several of its items are stock traits of bad government; if you mean bad government you should say “bad government” and not “fascism”. Eco is a rhetorician, please stop citing him as though he’s a political scientist.
I think this post is engaged in significant sleight of hand, between claims that a dictator will murder thousands of people, and claims that an abstract rating will decrease below X points. This is aggravated by the fact that the bet has a clause for “If The Economist Democracy Index [...] significantly changes its methodology” when to my knowledge the EDI does not publish its methodology other than a very brief summary.