Dissatisfaction drives democratic scepticism in Eastern Europe

Our research shows that dissatisfaction with the way democracy is practiced on the ground drives people's scepticism towards it as an ideal form of government.

Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic ...

Survey research consistently shows that post-communist citizens are highly skeptical of democracy. Central and Eastern Europeans support ...

Dissatisfaction with democracy in the EU 2024 | Statista

Citizens of many European countries have expressed that they feel they have no real input into political processes, that political parties tend to represent ...

Kiran Auerbach on LinkedIn: Dissatisfaction drives democratic ...

What drives democratic skepticism in Eastern Europe? Check out my blog post with Bilyana Petrova: https://lnkd.in/eNhg5KNw Our blog is based on our ...

Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic ...

Survey research has revealed that post-communist citizens are skeptical towards democracy. Despite a substantial body of literature that has researched the ...

(PDF) Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic ...

Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic Skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe. July 2022; Political Behavior 44(1). DOI: ...

Introduction: Regional inequality and political discontent in Europe

Regions in northern Europe, Switzerland and Austria exhibit the highest levels of satisfaction with democracy ( Figure 5 a). Eastern European regions have ...

The Threat of Selective Democracy. Popular Dissatisfaction ... - Brill

A global study identified. Central Europe around the moment of Eastern Enlargement as the place with the most skeptical view about democracy in the world (Leger ...

Global Public Opinion in an Era of Democratic Anxiety

This discontent and disillusionment with the political status quo is tied to many factors, including economic performance, governmental ...

Democratic Scepticism and Political Participation in Europe

Eastern and Western Europe; the average level of scepticism with democracy and overall dissatisfaction in Eastern Europe are nearly 1 point higher on a 4-point.

Young Europeans are not dissatisfied with democracy - Sage Journals

of young citizens around Europe is skeptical of or dissatis- fied with democracy. ... solidation of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Communist ...

(PDF) Democratic Scepticism and Political Participation in Europe

Using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems drawn from national election surveys in 22 countries in Eastern and Western Europe, we find that ...

EDMocracy: populism and democratic dissatisfaction in Europe

Dissatisfaction with democratic features is higher among populist voters, non-voters and geo- graphically present in all European ares except for Eastern Europe ...

European Public Opinion Three Decades After the Fall of Communism

When asked about the shifts to multiparty democracy and a market economy that occurred following the collapse of communism, former Eastern Bloc ...

In Defence of the Democratic Deficit: Reassessing Legitimacy in the ...

Still, if European elections were the only form of democratic accountabil- ity to which the EU were subject, scepticism would surely be warranted. Yet a more ...

Illiberal, Nativist Populism: Is Economic Insecurity the Cause?

This rendered “Eastern European societies … more vulnerable to attacks on abstract liberal institutions such as freedom of speech and judicial independence,” ...

Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic ...

Explaining Democratic Skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe. Kiran ... drive normative support for democracy. The impact of satisfaction with democracy on ...

Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of ...

Using data from 9 waves of the European Social Survey (2002-2018), we confirm that whereas among the general population positive evaluations of the democratic ...

On Chantal Mouffe's 'Democratic Agonism' and EU Democratic Deficit

By applying democratic agonism to the integration of the European Union (EU), focusing specifically on post-functionalism, it is unavoidable to ...

The Nexus Between Green Backlash and Democratic Backsliding in ...

Far-right parties are exploiting discontent with environmental policies, undermining progress on climate change and endangering democracy in Europe and beyond.