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#38 - Democratic Backsliding in American States - w/ Jake Grumbach

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What Kind of Institutional Changes Are People Referring To?

State level democracy has not been an important topic in political science and social science. There's a huge amount of research on, for example, policy responsiveness to public opinion at the state level. So when you say that people are increasingly categorizing the United States as an illiberal democracy, what kind of institutional changes are people referring to? Right. We've heard about the rise of the American Legislative Exchange Council and model bills from scholars like Alex or Tofananda's.

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