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Social origins of support for democracy: a study of intergenerational mobility
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Abstract
Recent evidence suggests that popular disaffection with liberal-democratic norms and institutions has been growing in different regions of the world, but studying the social origins of democratic versus authoritarian political preferences are especially relevant in countries with immature democratic... view more
Recent evidence suggests that popular disaffection with liberal-democratic norms and institutions has been growing in different regions of the world, but studying the social origins of democratic versus authoritarian political preferences are especially relevant in countries with immature democratic practices. The main concern of this article is the association between intergenerational social mobility and support for democracy in post-socialist societies. I present a theoretical framework in which individuals’ political attitudes are affected by their intergenerational social mobility experiences. I model this theoretical argument using two complementary data-sets and various multivariable and multilevel statistical techniques. The results indicate that intergenerational social mobility, particularly its subjective perception, has statistically significant links with attitudes towards democracy and that this association is moderated by the attained level of democracy in the country where an individual resides. This may suggest that studying social origins of support for democracy by means of intergenerational social mobility can be an important tool to understand the conundrum of democratisation and democratic backsliding in post-socialist societies.... view less
Keywords
social mobility; democracy; post-socialist country; public opinion; multi-level analysis; democratization; intergenerational mobility; attitude research; political system; political attitude; EVS
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
ZA4800: European Values Study 2008: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2008); Life in Transition Survey II: After the crisis (2010)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 376-396
Journal
International review of sociology = Revue internationale de sociologie, 30 (2020) 2
Issue topic
Global Violence and Social Change
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2020.1776918
ISSN
1469-9273
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0