Cameron Conaway

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An infographic featuring a line graph comparing the rate of autocratization in the United States to five other countries: Hungary, Russia, Türkiye, India, and Serbia. The graph, titled 'USA VS. OTHER PROMINENT AUTOCRATIZERS', has a horizontal axis for 'Years since Start of Autocratization' and a vertical axis for 'Magnitude of Decline on the LDI' (Liberal Democracy Index), from 0.00 to -0.50. The lines, each representing a country and starting at (0, 0.00), show a downward trend. The main finding highlighted is that the USA (represented by a solid black line) experienced the steepest initial drop in its index, plunging to -0.22 within the first two years and then stabilizing. In contrast, other countries like Russia and Türkiye saw more gradual but significantly deeper long-term declines, with Russia's index dropping below -0.40 after more than a decade. Other countries like India, Hungary, and Serbia show intermediate, less extreme rates of decline over time. The bottom of the infographic cites information from the V-Dem Dataset v16 and the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026, with a download link.