Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I’ve never lived in an autocracy before.

Feels weird.

The article suggests a few:
- loss of faith in political system (approval of congress was 13% at the time).
- feeling that ordinary people cannot influence policy anyway.
- WW2 recedes => cultural memory of the potential horrors of dictatorship fades.

This is an excellent piece by @jeevunsandher.bsky.social - it is worth highlighting too that lower levels of formal political engagement of younger people reduces the incentives for politicians to address the growing generational economic divide. jeevunsandher.substack.com/p/whose-econ...

Very concerning

The article is from 2016.
✅ Full citation: The Democratic Disconnect, Roberto Stefan Foa, Yascha Mounk, Journal of Democracy, Volume 27, Number 3, July 2016, pp. 5-17 (Article)

I've been teaching this Fao and Mounk article for years, along with the debate that it generated. It is time to accept that the unpalatable truth that WVS data has long contained serious red flags about societal support for democratic values, and discuss what can be done about this.