What Satisfaction with Democracy? A Global Analysis of “Satisfaction with Democracy” Measures
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چکیده
Asking citizens “the way democracy works” is the basis of a wide literature on support have for their political institutions and one most common survey items in science. Moreover, it key indicator purported global decline legitimacy. Yet, its trends, levels, dynamics are still debated, conclusions may be erroneous. In this paper, we compile unique dataset between 1973 2018 encompassing all major cross-national datasets national election studies twelve countries to study consistency “satisfaction with democracy” (SWD) measures globally. Our results show that while trends between-country differences democratic satisfaction largely similar, levels vary substantially projects, both significantly several widely studied countries. We has consequences at individual level: opting over another alter our about relationship demographics SWD. Thus, researchers studying SWD should endeavor consult diverse sources cautious when they do not, especially comes making claims changes time.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Political Research Quarterly
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1938-274X', '1938-2758', '1065-9129']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211009605