Popular Support for Democratization In Post-Communist Societies: Comparative Trend Data and Analysis

联合国的大多数成员国并不民主。 然而，过去十年的事态发展表明，不民主的政权越来越不稳定。 共产主义的崩溃提供了一个非凡的机会来研究从独裁到民主政权的转变过程。 民主过渡正在十几个中欧和东欧国家同时进行。 而且，与其他地方的转型不同，民主化是与从非市场经济向市场经济的转型同时发生的。 每一个民主化的政权都面临着威胁其代表机构的建立和维持的重大问题。 该项目调查了中欧和东欧新民主国家政治支持的演变。将根据过去五年在保加利亚、捷克共和国、斯洛伐克、匈牙利、波兰、罗马尼亚、斯洛文尼亚、白俄罗斯和乌克兰等国进行的一系列46项新民主国家晴雨表调查，建立一个汇总的时间序列数据集。 该数据集将允许测试大众支持（或拒绝）民主政权的政治文化，经济和社会理论。

Most member states of the United Nations are not democratic. Developments over the past decade have shown, however, that undemocratic regimes are increasingly unstable. The collapse of Communism offers an extraordinary opportunity to study the process of change from authoritarian to democratic regime. Democratic transitions are occurring simultaneously in more than a dozen Central and Eastern European countries. And, unlike transitions elsewhere, democratization is occurring simultaneously with the transition from non-market to market economy. Every one of the democratizing regimes faces major problems that threaten the establishment and maintenance of their representative institutions. This project investigates the evolution of political support for new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. A pooled, time series data set will be created from a series of 46 New Democracies Barometer surveys conducted over the past five years in the nations of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Belarus and Ukraine. This data set will allow the testing of political-cultural, economic, and social theories of mass support for (or rejection of) democratic regimes.