The Influence of War, Climate Change, and Migration on Autocracy Acceptance in Germany

• In Event: Democratic Norms and Affective Polarization

Brief Overview

This paper investigates how global events influence attitudes toward democracy. A new measurement is used to gauge acceptance of autocracy. Additionally, based on vignette experiments we explore causal effects of the perceptions of these events.

Authors

• Thomas Richter, German Institute of Global and Area Studies

• Katrin Brettfeld, University of Hamburg

• Peter Wetzels, University of Hamburg