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Democracy-Assessment in Cross-National Surveys: A Critical Examination of How People Evaluate Their Regime

verfasst von: Gal Ariely

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 3/2015

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Despite doubts regarding their validity and comparability, survey questions relating to the assessment of democracy remain a common feature of cross-national studies. This paper examines the way in which they are formulated in the World Values Survey 2005 by investigating their association with questions relating to a genuine understanding of democracy and the actual level of democracy in the countries surveyed. A multilevel analysis across 47 countries revealed that the level of democracy in a country is related to the relationship between a genuine understanding of democracy and democracy-assessment. While these relations are positive in democracies, they are insignificant in non-democratic countries. The implications of these findings for examining democratic attitudes across countries via the use of such survey questions are discussed.

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WVS weights were used to create the aggregate democracy measure.

For the multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis, see “Appendix”.

The loadings of the four items on the latent factor being virtually identical in the pooled sample, a simple average was used.

Following the exclusion of China, the correlation is r = −.25.

WVS weights were used in the multilevel regression models.

Given that the highest missing values came from China, the analysis was replicated without this country in order to verify that the results were not biased.

The models were replicated using the Economist Democracy Index in order to verify consistent results across different measures of democracy.

In a sample of 45 countries, government effectiveness and economic development are correlated .70 and .68 respectively with the country level of democracy.

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Titel: Democracy-Assessment in Cross-National Surveys: A Critical Examination of How People Evaluate Their Regime
verfasst von: Gal Ariely
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2015
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 3/2015
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-014-0666-y

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