📊 What makes a democracy real? It’s more than elections, it’s rights, dignity, and equity. I created the People’s Democracy Index (PDI) to measure exactly that.

Read the full breakdown here:
https://juavanzyl.vivaldi.net/2025/06/23/📊-understanding-the-peoples-democracy-index-pdi-a-rights-based-approach-to-measuring-democracy/

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Took a look at Poland 🇵🇱 vs. the U.S. 🇺🇸 using the People’s Democracy Index. The trends are… unsettling.

Poland rose, then stumbled.
The U.S. peaked, and now it’s sliding toward where Poland was in 2020.

Authoritarianism doesn’t knock. It seeps in.

#PDI #DemocracyIndex #DemocraticBacksliding #HumanRights #CivilLiberties #Poland #USA #QuantifyingDemocracy

@Gryficowa Took a look at Poland 🇵🇱 vs. the U.S. 🇺🇸 using the People’s Democracy Index. The trends are… unsettling.

Poland rose, then stumbled.
The U.S. peaked, and now it’s sliding toward where Poland was in 2020.

Authoritarianism doesn’t knock. It seeps in.

#PDI #DemocracyIndex #DemocraticBacksliding #HumanRights #CivilLiberties #Poland #USA #QuantifyingDemocracy

My 2025 update shows the U.S. slipping toward Electoral Autocracy. Why? Voter suppression. Civil rights rollback. Anti-LGBTQ+ laws. Militarized crisis governance.

Experts, activists, researchers—your insights are welcome. Let’s build this together.

#DemocracyCrisis #PoliticalScience #PDI #CivilRights #TransRights #QuantifyingDemocracy

After writing about how the U.S. falls short of true democracy, I started building a new tool: the People’s Democracy Index (PDI). It measures democracy through both civil-political and socio-economic rights.

Would love input from experts in the field. Let’s build better.

#DemocracyIndex #PDI #HumanRights #DemocracyMatters #PoliticalScience #CivicEngagement #QuantifyingDemocracy