We define change towards democracy as positive changes in combined democracy-autocracy scores of 2 or greater.
In politics, charismatic rule is often found in various authoritarian states, autocracies, dictatorships and theocracies.
The cycle of violence must be broken through the reconstitution of order in ways that depart from autocracy.
The existence of real liberties in many of these autocracies is very questionable.
Nineteenth century autocracies often abolished feudal institutions like serfdom, guilds, privileges for the nobility, and inequality before the law.
Participation in temperance activities was for some a radicalizing experience which led them to question the legitimacy of autocracy.
In other words, a group is more likely to challenge when living under an autocracy is about as bad as unsuccessfully revolting alone.
I used the formula [(democracy autocracy) 10]/20 to yield [0,1] range of the scores, where 0 denotes lowest and 1 highest democracy score.
