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Alexander Hudson
@aehudson.bsky.social
Political scientist | Assessing democracy @internationalidea.bsky.social | Author of The Veil of Participation (CUP) http://bit.ly/3jHUfYt | 🇨🇦 in 🇸🇪 | Posting in a personal capacity.
How exciting! Congratulations! I can't wait to read it.
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
You can find the report here: interactive.idea.int/gsod-2025
I'd be glad to hear what you think about it.
The Global State of Democracy 2025
The Global State of Democracy 2025 report from International IDEA
interactive.idea.int
September 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Rather than scrolling past the data visualizations, I would invite you to take a couple of minutes and see what mousing over a segment, or clicking on a field can reveal. You might uncover something new!
September 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We've tried to do something better than the 'grey literature' standard with the GSoD report this year. We worked with some amazing designers to produce an interactive online report that enables the reader to see what's behind the summary data in the graphs.
September 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reposted by Alexander Hudson
From Research to Practice
Voices from Our Pilot Areas

The third panel of #LegitimultFinalConference, featuring @internationalidea.bsky.social’s Democracy Assessment experts @aehudson.bsky.social & @gentagola.bsky.social, focuses on lessons learnt and good practices for future activities.
September 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It was published in open access, and is free to read on the publishers website here: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci...
The Sciences of the Democracies
The field of democracy studies is more constricted than it needs to be, as researchers, for all their insights, continue to study only fragments of democracy in isolation from each other. Seeking chan...
uclpress.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM