The Devil in the Details: Assessing Democratic Backsliding Using Event Data from Freedom House Country Reports

• In Event: Democratization and Autocratization

Brief Overview

This study presents results from an approach that uses AI to extract structured event data from Freedom House country reports for 219 countries from 1990 to 2024, contributing to the question of whether democratic backsliding has actually occurred.

Authors

• Matthew Charles Wilson, University of South Carolina

• Kelsey Morgan Martin Morales, University of South Carolina

• Gregory Nelson, University of South Carolina