About this Dataset

Democratic Satisfaction

Democratic satisfaction measures the extent to which the public of a given country is satisfied with the “way democracy works” in their country. Some scholars treat satisfaction as akin to democratic support; others use it as a summary measure of political support; yet others regard it as capturing an instrumental or performance-based appraisal of the regime. Whatever the interpretation, democratic satisfaction is widely used in cross-national opinion research.

It is measured by applying a Bayesian latent variable model to aggregated survey data from a wide variety of cross-national survey projects, covering 132 countries from as early as 1973 until 2020.

The Bayesian model is the same as that used to measure democratic mood (http://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2018.32). Earlier satisfaction estimates are used in this article. This choropleth shows democratic satisfaction in 2020.

Tables

Democratic Satisfaction

@owid.claassen_satisfaction.owid_claassen_satisfaction

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CREATE TABLE owid_claassen_satisfaction (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "democracy_satisf_claassen" FLOAT,
  "democracy_satisf_high_claassen" FLOAT,
  "democracy_satisf_low_claassen" FLOAT
);