- 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. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2024.2448742 181 comments science