Collaborative Research: Attitudes to Democratic Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Support for Political and Economic Reform in Africa

这项调查确定，探索，并解释了在新的非洲民主国家的公民不断变化的政治和经济偏好。 非洲精英对1980年代末和1990年代初改革运动所带来的政治和经济自由有多大的承诺？ 自由化倡议在普通公民中有多受欢迎？ 除了这些经验问题之外，目前还没有什么信息，还有一些具有广泛理论意义的问题。 支持政治民主和支持市场经济之间有关系吗？ 对改革的态度是否表现在政治和经济行为上？ 这里的关键是一种政治和经济文化的出现，这种文化可以帮助脆弱的民主资本主义政权生存下去，并在长期内巩固。 设计比较，这一合作调查elessons个人层面的数据，从大众和精英演员通过国家概率抽样调查在三个国家。 数据由研究人员收集和分析，每个人都与贝宁和加纳的伙伴研究机构密切合作。 这些国家在殖民地经历、文化和种族特征、近期经济历史和禀赋以及体制经验方面有很大不同。 因此，撒哈拉以南非洲为社会科学家提供了丰富多样的环境，以比较评估支持民主资本主义的解释。

This investigation identifies, explores, and explains the evolving political and economic preferences of citizens in new African democracies. How committed are African elites to the political and economic freedoms introduced by reform movements in the late 1980s and early 1990s? How popular are liberalization initiatives among ordinary citizens? Beyond these empirical questions, for which currently there is little information, lie issues of broad theoretical import. Are there relationships between support for political democracy and support for a market economy? Are attitudes to reform manifest in political and economic behavior? At stake here is the emergence of a political and economic culture that can help a fragile regime of democratic capitalism to survive and, over the long run, to consolidate. Designed comparatively, this collaborative investigation elicits individual-level data from both mass and elite actors by means of national probability sample surveys in three countries. Data are gathered and analyzed by the investigators each working closely with a partner research institution in Benin and Ghana. These countries differ significantly in terms of their colonial experiences, cultural and ethnic characteristics, recent economic history and endowments, and institutional experiences. Thus, sub-Saharan Africa offers social scientists a rich diversity of settings in which to comparatively evaluate explanations of support for democratic capitalism.