Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245742 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14691
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an instrumental-variables strategy exploiting regional democratization waves and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are consistent with a causal interpretation. We also establish that democracies breed their own support only when they are successful: all of the effects we estimate work through exposure to democracies that are successful in providing economic growth, peace and political stability, and public goods.
Subjects: 
democracy
economic growth
institutions
support for democracy
values
JEL: 
P16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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