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International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2007 19(1):122-126; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edl036
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

What are Emergent Democratic Societies Doing to Democracy?

Marta Lagos

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New evidence from the largest democracy in the world, India, and her four neighboring countries in South Asia has come to complete a picture that is difficult to ignore. Today we gather, in the Globalbarometer, public opinion data from 46 emergent democracies. The query posed by the new South Asian Barometer is not what democracy is doing to these societies, but what these societies are doing to democracy.

Comparing results for Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and South Asia renders a map of a reduced understanding of democracy. It appears that the more democracy spreads, the more simple the conception of democracy in people's minds gets. It seems with few exceptions in the countries surveyed that democracy to the people means above all freedom, whereas the institutional and procedural dimension of the concept is not so salient . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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