Happiness and Life Satisfaction as Correlates of Attitudes toward Democracy (cross-national comparison)

The societies differ in their political and economic past and actually possessed systems. They differ in their conceptions of democracy, free market economy and social equality. Political, economic and social mechanisms in various countries are creating and changing conceptions of winners and losers. How did societies react to the unexpected, fluid reality? Going further, whose conceptions are changing and in which direction in the last decades? WVS data will be analyzed in the presentation.