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FarCenter

(19,429 posts) Wed Nov 30, 2016, 12:51 PM Nov 2016

The slow asphyxiation of Western democracy in 4 charts

Faith in democracy is dying.

A study by two academics for the Journal of Democracy this summer found that those born in the 1980s were less than half as likely as those born before World War II to consider living under democracy as essential.

Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk found that US and European citizens had become "more cynical about the value of democracy as a political system, less hopeful that anything they do might influence public policy, and more willing to express support for authoritarian alternatives."

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-slow-asphyxiation-of-western-democracy-in-4-charts-2016-11

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