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Citizens in Advanced Economies Want Significant Changes to Their Political Systems
Very few are happy with democracy if they think their government does not respect personal freedoms
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- Citizens in Advanced Economies Want Significant Changes to Their Political Systems
- Cumulative response rate
- Final dispositions
- Unweighted sample sizes and error attributable to sampling
- Weighting dimensions
- Invitation and reminder dates
- American Trends Panel recruitment surveys
- European populist party classifications
- Appendix: Political categorization
- Democracy classifications
- Very few are happy with democracy if they think their government does not respect personal freedoms
- Supporters of the party in power are far more likely to say personal freedoms are respected
- French less positive on government’s respect for freedoms than in the past
- Majorities say their government respects personal freedoms, but there is notable disagreement
- Many are satisfied with the way democracy is working, but views vary
- Americans, Greeks most vocal about health care system reform
- Views on economic reform vary widely
- Those who want changes to their political system are not confident political system can be changed
- Those who are dissatisfied with their democracy are more likely to want political reform
- Large shares in many publics say their political system needs reform
- More support for overhaul of political system among those who see partisan conflict in their societies
- Those who rate their country’s pandemic response negatively are more likely to want significant political reform
- Economic pessimists see greater need for political reform
- People in advanced economies offer very different assessments of their political, economic and health care systems
- Many see need for significant political, economic and health care reform
- Assessments of how well democracy is working vary widely