Divergent Understandings of Democracy: Political Choice and the Demand Side of Democratic Backsliding

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Brief Overview

We argue that different understandings of democracy help explain why voters support undemocratic political candidates. We provide evidence from an original survey experiment in Poland.

Authors

• Natasha Wunsch, ETH Zurich/Sciences Po Paris

• Marc S. Jacob, ETH Zurich

• Laurenz Derksen, ETH Zurich