Similarly in the UK, the relatively authoritarian May was replaced with the much more libertarian Johnson.
I’m not sure everyone would agree that that leadership was a change in a less authoritarian direction. At any rate, I think the default view would be that it says little about global trends in levels of authoritarianism. Also May seems quite different from the leaders and parties that Haydn discusses in that section.
I think it would have been better if you had given an argument for this view, instead of just stating it (since it’s likely far from obviously true to most readers).
Thanks Stefan, yes this is my view too: “default view would be that it says little about global trends in levels of authoritarianism”. I simply gave a few illustrative examples to underline the wider statistical point, and highlight a few causal mechanisms (e.g. demonstration effect, Bannon’s transnational campaigning).
I’m not sure everyone would agree that that leadership was a change in a less authoritarian direction. At any rate, I think the default view would be that it says little about global trends in levels of authoritarianism. Also May seems quite different from the leaders and parties that Haydn discusses in that section.
I think it would have been better if you had given an argument for this view, instead of just stating it (since it’s likely far from obviously true to most readers).
Thanks Stefan, yes this is my view too: “default view would be that it says little about global trends in levels of authoritarianism”. I simply gave a few illustrative examples to underline the wider statistical point, and highlight a few causal mechanisms (e.g. demonstration effect, Bannon’s transnational campaigning).