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Democracy vs Autocracy - trends and impacts

Ruth Tarrant

26th February 2016

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There are some fascinating time-series charts and graphs from the Systemic Peace website, based on Polity 4 data, tracking trends in types of political systems. I've included some charts below that could be used as a neat classroom starter for discussion of these topics.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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