(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support

Published: Jan 1, 2021
Abstract
Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an instrumental-variables strategy exploiting regional democratization waves and focusing on immigrants’ exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the...
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Title
(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support
Published Date
Jan 1, 2021
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