Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding

The Trump presidency generated concern about democratic backsliding and renewed interest in measuring the national democratic performance of the United States. However, the U.S. has a decentralized form of federalism that administers democratic institutions at the state level. Using 51 indicators of democratic performance from 2000 to 2018, we develop a measure of subnational democratic performance, the State Democracy Index.

Kento Ohara

Thank you for visiting my profile. I am a DPhil student reading Politics at St Antony's College. I recently completed the DPIR's MPhil course in Politics (Comparative Government) with Distinction at St Hugh's College. I study accountability, representation and voters' evaluation thereof in contemporary parliamentary democracies, through both institutionalist and behaviouralist perspectives. Methodologically, I am interested in the application of causal inference designs, experiments and Natural Language Processing techniques in conducting research related to my substantive interests.

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