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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/smurfyjenkins on 2025-01-30 01:09:56+00:00.

Original Title: Over the period 1900–2023, more than half of all episodes of autocratization (democratic backsliding) take a U-turn shape in which they are followed by subsequent democratization. In the last 30 years, nearly three quarters of autocratization episodes are followed by democratization.