Democrats with adjectives: Linking direct and indirect measures of democratic support
Democrats with adjectives: Linking direct and indirect measures of democratic support
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带有形容词的民主党人：将直接和间接的民主支持措施联系起来
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-6765.2007.00708.x
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
R. Sarsfield
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作者：
Andreas Schedler;R. Sarsfield
摘要： 主要的跨国调查通过直接提出有关抽象民主的问题来衡量民众对民主的支持率。然而，由于人们可能怀有相互竞争的民主思想和理想，学术界忽视了标准问题在多大程度上吸引了公民对自由民主的支持。为了解决与民主支持的直接措施相关的有效性问题，本文建议将它们与更具体的、间接的支持民主原则和制度的措施联系起来。它使用了聚类分析的统计技术来建立这种联系。聚类分析允许以一种对复杂和不一致的态度特征开放的方式对受访者进行分组。它允许用形容词来识别支持抽象民主的“民主党人”，同时拒绝自由民主的核心原则。文章以墨西哥2003年全国政治文化调查为基础，绘制了墨西哥“狭隘的民主党人”的地图，从而证明了这一方法的成果。
Abstract. Major cross-national surveys measure popular support for democracy through direct questions about democracy in the abstract. Since people may entertain competing democratic ideas and ideals, however, the academic community ignores the extent to which standard questions capture citizen support for liberal democracy. To solve the validity problems associated with direct measures of democratic support, this article proposes linking them to more concrete, indirect measures of support for democratic principles and institutions. It employs the statistical technique of cluster analysis to establish this linkage. Cluster analysis permits grouping respondents in a way that is open to complex and inconsistent attitudinal profiles. It permits the identification of ‘democrats with adjectives’ who support democracy in the abstract, while rejecting core principles of liberal democracy. The article demonstrates the fruitfulness of this approach by drawing a map of ‘illiberal democrats’ in Mexico on the basis of the country's 2003 National Survey on Political Culture.