Dec. 7, 2016
Yascha Mounk's work about the steady decline of faith in democracy was cited in the Financial Times:
Compare that sentiment with attitudes in the west, where genuine democracy — with all its imperfections — has existed for decades. In the US, according to a recent paper by Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk, faith in democracy is in steady decline. They cite findings in the World Values Survey, which asked Americans whether they approved of the idea of “having the army ‘take over’”. In 1995, one in 16 agreed. Since then, that number has risen steadily to one in six. Younger Americans are much less wedded to the idea of democracy than their grandparents. When respondents were asked to put a value on democracy on a scale of one to 10, 72 per cent of those born before the second world war assigned the maximum value. Among those born since the 1980s, about 30 per cent did.