Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282030 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 338
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects democratic attitudes in Western democracies. Using individual survey responses, the empirical analysis disentangles age from cohort patterns and other contemporaneous economic and political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is lower for more recent birth cohorts. These patterns are more pronounced in Western democracies than in the former Eastern bloc and in other countries around the world. Additional findings document that demography's effect partly captures heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes.
Subjects: 
support for democracy
age-periods-cohort models
population aging
demographic composition
stability of democracy
modernization hypothesis
JEL: 
D72
O17
O43
P48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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