Why the Future Is (Still) Democratic

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

Contradicting the oft-cited "deconsolidation thesis"—the notion of a worldwide decline in democratic support, especially among the young—we demonstrate that there is no global erosion of support for democracy, neither over time nor across generations. The global democratic-support trend is basically flat, with cyclical fluctuations between a very high and stable base level. More important, however, is a global generational shift from authoritarian values toward emancipative ones. Emancipative values tie democratic support increasingly tightly to liberal principles. Emancipative-values holders are more likely to resist attempts by autocrats or populists to deny or limit democratic freedoms. Slowly but steadily, this cultural undercurrent is shifting legitimacy from autocracy to democracy in most world regions. Democracy's future is bright.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Democracy
Volume33
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)156-162
Number of pages7
ISSN1045-5736
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2022

DOI

Recently viewed

Researchers

  1. Tobias Otte

Publications

  1. Energy transitions in small-scale regions – What we can learn from a regional innovation systems perspective.
  2. An InfoSpace Paradigm for Local and ad hoc Peer-to-Peer Communication
  3. We'll get them to do anything! Funny Inventions and Marketing
  4. Reliability, factor structure, and measurement invariance of the dominic interactive across European countries
  5. Advanced oxidation processes in the treatment of trifluraline effluent
  6. Fast response of groundwater to heavy rainfall
  7. The effect of organic acids and alcohols on precipitation of phosphate using calcined seashell powder
  8. Putting sustainable chemistry and resource use into context
  9. Out of the box
  10. The technological condition
  11. The Bali Convention: flexibility of targets and instruments inevitable
  12. Elution of monomers from three different bonding systems and their antibacterial effect
  13. Strategies, uncertainty and performance of small business startups
  14. y-Randomization and its variants in QSPR/QSAR
  15. Geodetic rays and fibers in periodic graphs
  16. Assessment of the biotic and abiotic elimination processes of five micropollutants during cultivation of the green microalgae Acutodesmus obliquus
  17. EEZ-adjacent distant-water fishing as a global security challenge
  18. Production planning with simulated annealing
  19. Notting Hill Gate 3 Basic
  20. Steering for sustainable development
  21. Emerging Technologies for Improving Access to Radiation Therapy
  22. Well if that had been true, that would have been perfectly reasonable - Appeals to reasonableness in political interviews
  23. Development of a magnesium recycling alloy based on the AM alloy system
  24. Feedback Systems
  25. From Estimation Results to Stylized Facts
  26. Conference report Spatial strategies at the land-sea interface
  27. Data Matters
  28. 2 Thessalonians as pseudepigraphic 'reading instruction' for 1 Thessalonians
  29. Towards a more sustainable metal use – Lessons learned from national strategy documents
  30. Geschäftsprozessintegration mit SAP
  31. The Influence Of Product Reuse On Production Planning and Control
  32. Dis/Ability and Digital Cultures. A Media-Archaeological Perspective on Inclusion as a Cipher
  33. YouCallo – Tapping the Knowledge of Social Groupware Systems
  34. How health message framing and targets affect distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic
  35. Sustainable Green Technologies
  36. Priming of CD8+ T-cell responses after DNA immunization is impaired in TLR9- and MyD88-deficient mice.
  37. Participation for effective environmental governance? Evidence from Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom
  38. Exploring inclusive education in times of COVID-19
  39. Recent developments in microalgal conversion of organic-enriched waste streams
  40. Relation of vocational identity statuses to interest structure among Swiss adolescents
  41. Die übertragene Revolution