What Is Economic Development? Growth and Wealth Disparities

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1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   2 corrections applied: Pernicious polarization was coined by McCoy and Somer, not Grzymala-Busse (who is not principally a V-Dem researcher) | Corrects garbled 24%-to-19% time trend to the actual Foa-Mounk cross-generational World Values Survey comparison

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   Pernicious polarization is V-Dem researcher Anna Grzymala-Busse's term ... In 2011, 24 percent of US millennials said it was "essential" to live in a democracy

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   Pernicious polarization is political scientists Jennifer McCoy and Murat Somer's term ... Roughly 30 percent of US millennials said it was "essential" to live in a democracy, compared with about 72 percent of the interwar generation born in the 1930s

   Why: Verified both corrections already applied correctly in article body. A separate, legitimate Grzymala-Busse quote (on civil society repression, attributed to Foreign Affairs 2021) also appears elsewhere in the article but is unrelated to the pernicious-polarization fabrication. FAQ has no mention of Grzymala-Busse, McCoy, Somer, or the 24 percent figure. No further changes needed.

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