ICYMI - new version of democracyData #Rstats.

GitHub - xmarquez/democracyData: Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData

New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...

Oh, and @svmiller.com !

Also @professormusgrave.bsky.social

Of possible interest to @joenoonan.se @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social @danpemstein.com @tompepinsky.com @adamprz.bsky.social @skaaning.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social @raulpachecovega.bsky.social

Possibly also worth noting that @freedomhouse.bsky.social no longer makes available a public-facing download of their latest Freedom in the World data so this version of democracyData only archives the 2025 release.

For all your democracy data needs! Check it out: xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/

It also includes various bug fixes, new tests, and documentation updates, many substantially made possible by Codex and Claude Code. Full changelog xmarquez.github.io/democracyDat...

Includes extracts from the latest version of VDem (v. 16), the new Bertelsmann Transformation index 2026, EIU 2026, Bjørnskov-Rode v6.2, LIED v. 6.9, the latest update from the World Bank's World Governance Indicators Voice and Accountability index, Anckar v. 3.0

GitHub - xmarquez/democracyData: Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData

New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...

Neon Liberalism #61: What is Personalism? Samantha and guest Professor Xavier Márquez talk the nature of non-democratic politics, and why the concept of "personalism" is the key to understanding the dynamics and dysfunctions of the second Tru...

Neon Liberalism #62: Samantha and guest Professor Xavier Márquez talk the nature of non-democratic politics, and why the concept of "personalism" is the key to understanding the dynamics and dysfunctions of the second Trump administration. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

America's Paths to Personalism The three primary risk vectors of the second Trump administration.

Read @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com applying @marquezxavier.bsky.social’s insights to Trump, published in December 2024 www.liberalcurrents.com/americas-pat...

You are required to listen to this @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com interview of @marquezxavier.bsky.social, the Liberal Currents High Council has issued the order, you cannot understand our Party Line without doing so.

New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around

Also tagging @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social @adamprz.bsky.social in case it's of interest

Had procrastinated updating this for like 2 years. But it is now up to date and it fixes several bugs and adds new data, including the Varieties of Political Regimes dataset by Steffen Kailitz

Of potential interest to @skaaning.bsky.social (LIED v. 6.8 is there), @svmiller.com @joenoonan.se @chknutsen.bsky.social

New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around

Repulsive AI art of Donald Trump and Jesus

"how do you show your loyalty? By paying the costs of humiliation. The more grotesquely over the top your praise, the more credible it is as a signal of support for Dear Leader."
www.programmablemutter.com/p/short-post...

I've written a couple of papers: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... and openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/cha...

On the Political Roots of Academic Freedom It is a fine convention to treat the University of Bologna as the first, degree-granting university in the modern sense that has stayed in continuous operation (see, for example, Wikipedia).

On the Political Roots of Academic Freedom open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Thanks! Glad it's useful

To @jonrauch.bsky.social, @jeffkopstein.bsky.social, and @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, I say: not *just* patrimonialism, but all the facets of personalism (drawing on @marquezxavier.bsky.social) www.liberalcurrents.com/americas-pat...

Diary Week 1

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

Everyone needs to know @marquezxavier.bsky.social theory of 'flattery inflation' (short version here - abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2011/12/flat..., academic version papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... )

Sounds like a bug - either with your keyboard/touchpad (sending unintended scrolling signals) or perhaps something with Chrome (update and restart to see if it helps?) Sorry!

downarrow on the top left should show you all your tabs, with the latest thing you opened listed at the top. It should not autoscroll - maybe some other issue is causing the scrolling behaviour?

Two books I recommend right now:
-Non-Democratic Politics by @marquezxavier.bsky.social
-Waging a Good War by Thomas E. Ricks

I am following the daily coverage though. I try to focus on coverage that talks in detail about what specific things they are doing vs simply repeating what they're saying

The mechanisms of personalization This article draws on Max Weber’s account of legitimate authority to argue that there are three key mechanisms that drive the personalization of power in political regimes: the mobilization of char...

“These regimes are characterized by high levels of de-institutionalization, where formal authority is no longer a good guide to the location of power.” - @marquezxavier.bsky.social on patrimonial regimes, in “The Mechanisms of Personalization” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is now officially published open access!