Abstract
Este artigo examina como as questões dos surveys sobre democracia são estruturadas de modos diferentes, dependendo do emprego de uma definição idealista ou realista e da presença ou não de comparações com regimes alternativos. Começo mostrando medidas de democracia em países póscomunistas que perguntam às pessoas se estão satisfeitas ou não com a democracia e pedem que a comparem com um padrão ideal. As seções posteriores apresentam os resultados de questões realistas do New Democracies Barometer, que pedem às pessoas para avaliar regimes do passado, do presente e do futuro – e alternativas não-democráticas historicamente familiares.
Abstract
This paper examines how survey questions about democracy are framed in different ways, depending upon whether an idealist or realist definition is employed, and whether or not comparisons are made with alternative regimes. It starts by reporting measures of democracy in post-Communist countries that ask people whether they are satisfied with democracy and to compare it with an ideal standard. Subsequent sections set out the results of realist questions from the New Democracies Barometer, which ask people to evaluate regimes past, present and future-and historically familiar undemocratic regimes that people have known.
Key words: democracy, political culture, survey questions, post-Communist regimes
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