Popular Mobilization in (Another) Year ofAutocratization• Popular mobilization continues to stay at low levels.This lack of a pro-democratic mobilization risks allowing autocratization to deepen unchallenged. • Rising levels of pro-autocracy mobilization may signal that autocratizing leaders are taking bolder actions to demonstrate legitimacy.
AUTOCRATIZATION CHANGING NATURE ?• The "epidemic of coup d'états" in 2021 suggests that bolder actions of autocratization are becoming more common.• Polarization escalates towards toxic levels in 40 countries.