Carousels of Democracy: The Long-Term Effects of Electoral Alternation On People’s Attitudes About Democracy

• In Event: Democratic Attitudes and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

The peaceful transfer of power is a key feature of democracies. We examine the effects of experiencing executive turnovers on support for democracy using a sample of 1.5 million respondents collected over the past 50 years.

Authors

• Damien Bol, King's College London

• Christopher J. Anderson, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Andrew Klassen, Human Surveys