What drives citizens’ evaluation of democratic performance? The interaction of citizens’ democratic knowledge and institutional level of democracy
What drives citizens’ evaluation of democratic performance? The interaction of citizens’ democratic knowledge and institutional level of democracy
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公民对民主绩效的评价是由什么驱动的？公民的民主知识与民主制度水平的相互作用？
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10.1007/s12286-020-00467-0
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发表时间：
2020
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T. Stark
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作者：
Carsten Wegscheider;T. Stark
除了公民对民主合法性的信念外，公众对政治制度的支持对（民主）政治制度的生存至关重要。然而，从全球比较的角度来看，我们对公民的民主知识与他们对民主表现的评价之间的关系知之甚少。在本文中，我们认为公民区分民主和专制特征的认知能力构成了评估实践中的民主的个人尺度。此外，我们期望公民民主知识对其民主绩效评估的影响受到民主制度水平的调节。我们通过结合世界价值观调查的第六和第七波数据以及2017年欧洲价值观研究的第三次预发布的数据来检验这些假设，得出来自80个国家的114个代表性样本，共有128,127名受访者。运用多元回归模型，我们发现民主程度越高的国家，民主知识对公民民主绩效评价的正向影响越大。相反，我们发现一个国家的民主水平越低，公民的民主知识对其民主评价的负面影响就越大。因此，这项研究表明，对民主了解更多的公民在认知上最有能力根据国家层面的民主措施来评估民主水平。这些研究结果为民主支持度和满意度的相关研究以及民主化研究开辟了新的理论和实证视角。
Alongside citizens’ belief in the legitimacy of democracy, public support for the political regime is crucial to the survival of (democratic) political systems. Yet, we know fairly little about the relationship between citizens’ democratic knowledge and their evaluation of democratic performance from a global comparative perspective. In this article, we argue that the cognitive ability of citizens to distinguish between democratic and authoritarian characteristics constitutes the individual yardstick for assessing democracy in practice. Furthermore, we expect that the effect of citizens’ democratic knowledge on their evaluation of democratic performance is moderated by the institutional level of democracy. We test these assumptions by combining data from the sixth and seventh wave of the World Values Survey and the third pre-release of the European Values Study 2017, resulting in 114 representative samples from 80 countries with 128,127 respondents. Applying multilevel regression modeling, we find that the higher a country’s level of democracy, the more positive the effect of democratic knowledge on citizens’ assessment of democratic performance. In contrast, we find that the lower the level of democracy in a country, the more negative the effect of citizens’ democratic knowledge on their evaluation of democracy. Thus, this study shows that citizens who are more knowledgeable about democracy are most cognitively able to assess the level of democracy in line with country-level measures of democracy. These results open up new theoretical and empirical perspectives for related research on support for and satisfaction with democracy as well as research on democratization.
卢卡奇政治思想中的社会主义、国家和社会主义（一）
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2004
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早稲田法学 79巻2号
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作者：
早川弘道
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早川弘道