ACI - Authoritarian Consolidation Index
Discovered via E-FLUX Review 220
Polybius: The Authoritarian Consolidation Index (John Ganz) — An interactive poli-sci app that uses Claude to evaluate recent news against theoretical models like Linz’s “Perils of Presidentialism”, Gramsci’s hegemony, and de Tocqueville’s civil society to compute a score that measures the health of a given democracy. The app is pre-loaded with the USA’s “authoritarian consolidation index” score, but with your own API keys, you can run the analysis on any country of interest.
Here is the score when I checked today (31st of January, 2026). If you click the link, you’ll get a lot more information.
