Public Support for Democracy in the United States Has Declined Generationally

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Abstract

Support for democracy in the United States, once thought to be solid, has now been shown to be somewhat shaky. One of the most concerning aspects of this declining attachment to democracy is a marked age gap, with younger Americans less supportive of democracy than their older compatriots. Using age-period-cohort analysis of 12 national surveys collected between 1995 and 2019, we show that this age gap is largely a function of a long-term generational decline in support for democracy, with little evidence of an independent life-cycle effect apparent. The combination of generational decline without a positive and counterbalancing life-cycle effect offers a sober prognosis of how support for democracy in the United States might look in the future.

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Claassen, C., & Magalhães, P. C. (2023). Public Support for Democracy in the United States Has Declined Generationally. Public Opinion Quarterly, 87(3), 719–732. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfad039

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