Terrifying and yet super helpful for a project I'm working on looking at foreign influence and public opinion in backsliding democracies. Thanks for this!!

Thanks, Bob!!

Congrats! So great to see this out. I really enjoyed your presentation of this at the Backsliding Summer School in Montreal.

Thank you so much! We cite your work extensively in the research note introducing the data.

Thanks, Brendan!!

On a side note: this work represents a second branch of my research agenda, which seeks to make different forms of quantitative data more accessible to researchers and policymakers alike across CP, AP, and IR. I'm also on the market, so if you're hiring please do not hesitate to reach out!

The repository includes over 950 variables from 1789 to 2025, and we plan to regularly update it and incorporate new data. If you would like to have your data included or know of anyone that might, please feel free to reach out to me: yoelbenj@msu.edu. We will also have a Shiny app out very soon!

BH.

Looks super cool, Marc! I’m actually working on a similar question right now. Looking forward to reading and citing!

And yes, pro-democracy coalition formation is often so difficult, especially because these movements face strategic tradeoffs about who to include and why. More on this point in one of my dissertation papers where I ran a conjoint experiment to study this: benjaminyoel.com/research

Perhaps unsurprisingly, my item is strongly correlated with other items in the survey, such as the extent to which people vote based on cultural vs economic issues and their likelihood of protesting against anti-democratic incumbents. Thanks again to @verasight.bsky.social!

Thank you for sharing.

Good piece, but it misses some important context about attempts to polarize the opposition, which then leads pro-democracy movements to grapple with a strategic tradeoff (something I try to address in my dissertation).

Amen

Congrats, Danny! Was great chatting about this at APSA.