Assessing the public understanding of democracy through conjoint analysis

Global support for democracy is puzzling in the time of alleged backlash toward democracy. Building on recent studies democratic that take into consideration heterogeneity subjective perceptions democracy, I conducted a conjoint analysis and examined trade-offs among various values citizens might face when they think Using an original dataset 2,206 respondents, sampled from Japanese adult population, found procedural view played most important role people evaluated country's level. In their view, lack free fair elections disenfranchisement certain groups were more detrimental to than shortage checks balances, economic growth, social welfare. addition, shows factors representing minoritarian substantive play undeniable citizens' evaluations, which confirms discrepancies between how students democratization conceptualize ordinary today.