Is Democracy in Decline? What the Data and Research Show
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Is Democracy in Decline? What the Data and Research Show

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Freedom House reports 17+ consecutive years of democratic decline. What does the data actually show, and how do democracies erode?

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By 2022, Freedom House reclassified Hungary not as a democracy but as a…
+By 2020, Freedom House reclassified Hungary not as a democracy but as a…
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Lindberg, Staffan I. Lindberg, and hundreds of country specialists
+Staffan I. Lindberg, and hundreds of country specialists

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Verified live: body content already correctly states the Hungary reclassification occurred in 2020, and the duplicated 'Lindberg, Staffan I. Lindberg' has already been fixed to a single 'Staffan I. Lindberg' mention. FAQ field mentions Hungary and Lindberg only in unrelated, correctly-stated contexts (a 2006-2022 Freedom House decline range, and V-Dem's Lindberg/Luhrmann authorship without the duplication). No further action needed.

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