Popular Responses to Democratic Reforms in Africa

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Popular Responses to Democratic Reforms in Africa

• Selected Results from Round 1 of the Afrobarometer

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• Which of these three statements is closest to
  your opinion?
• Democracy is preferable to any other form of
  government.
• In certain situations, a non-democratic
  government can be preferable
• To people like me, it doesnt matter what form of
  government we have.

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What, if anything, does democracy mean to you?
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In your opinion, how much of a democracy is (your
country) today?
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How satisfied are you with the way democracy
works in (your country)?
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Support for Democracyby Satisfaction with
Democracypercentage of respondents in 12 African
countries, n 18,526 (excludes dont knows)
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Support for Democracyby Rejection of
Authoritarian Rulepercentage of respondents in
12 African countries, n 18,554 (excludes dont
knows)
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Includes extent of democracy as a predictor
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Scores are sums of Beta weights (p or lt.05)
from multivariate regression analyses
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Most Important FactorsShaping Attitudes to
Democracy(i.e. the indexes or items that explain
the most variance in OLS regression models)
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