What Type of Democratic Commitment Lies Behind the Importance of Living in a Democracy?

• Autores: Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger
• Localización: How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy / Mónica Ferrín (aut.), Hanspeter Kriesi (aut.), 2016, ISBN 9780198766902, págs. 130-151
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Dialnet Métricas: 1 Cita
• Resumen

  • In this chapter I look at the question “How important is it for you to live in a country that is governed democratically?” as it appears in Round 6 of the European Social Survey. The first objective of this chapter is to analyze whether this indicator really measures commitment to the principles of liberal representative democracy. In this respect, the analysis shows, first, that the importance of living in a democracy is not a valid indicator of strong commitment to liberal representative democracy and, second, that this indicator works better if dichotomized at its highest value (value “10”). The second objective is to analyze how the relationship between the importance of living in a democracy and the principles of liberal representative democracy is modified by individual- and macro-level factors, both in the short and the long term.