Thread by @SheenaGreitens

Hi again, @BrankoMilan, there is not good empirical justification for this statement, only an unfamiliarity with the relevant bodies of scholarship. There is a LOT of comparative work integrating non-Western welfare, citizenship, electoral regimes, etc.

https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1394041575647416324

I teach a global course on "democracy & dictatorship." Here's the opening week on how we measure/define democracy, which uses metrics/tools explicitly designed to avoid over-reliance on Western conceptions.

Here's a week on elections & other political institutions under autocracy, where key Q is to what extent these institutions serve same functions under dem/autocratic systems, & to what extent functions differ.

I can do these for democratization, democratic backsliding, political economy, conflict behavior, regime resilience, etc. DM me if you want a list.