The U.S. public’s views of both the Republican and Democratic parties are more unfavorable than favorable, with a record number of Americans (28%) now expressing unfavorable views of both parties. Yet most Republicans and Democrats characterize their own party in positive terms, saying that it respects democracy and governs honestly and ethically. And most say […]
Americans largely have negative feelings toward both political parties, while positive sentiments are far less common. Three-quarters of U.S. adults say the Democratic Party makes them feel frustrated, while a smaller majority (64%) says the same of the Republican Party. Roughly half of Americans also say the Democratic Party (50%) and the Republican Party (49%) […]
Untethered from partisan politics and uninterested in keeping up with political news, here is how some Americans view the current state of U.S. politics.
We use three measures to better understand the status of democracy across the advanced economies included in our survey: 2021 Democracy Index scores from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 2022 Global Freedom Status scores provided by Freedom House, 2021 Global State of Democracy indices from International IDEA and Regimes of the World classifications from Varieties […]