Support for Democracy in USA, Canada and UK

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the concept of 'Political Support for Democracy' in the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom. The paper will analyze the structure and temporal development of the support for democracy in USA, UK and Canada in the last 20 years. The database for the proposed paper is the World Values Survey, which have been conducted in several waves in all 3 states. The time points of the WVS for USA are the years 1999, 2006, 2011 and 2017. The time points for Canada of the WVS are 2000, 2006 and 2020. The time points for the United Kingdom are 1998, 2017 and 2022. The topic of this article is part of the current scholarly debate about the concept of “political support for democracy.” The conceptual framework of this article is based on the concept of political support that was first formulated by David Easton (1975) and further developed by Pippa Norris (1999), Hans-Dieter Klingemann (1999), and Russell J. Dalton (2004), on the one hand, and the concept of a “realist” form of political support, presented by Richard Rose, William T. Mishler, and Christian W. Haerpfer (1998), on the other. One of the leading authors in this field is Russell J. Dalton, who focuses on political support for democracy in general and on political support for democracy in advanced industrial countries in particular (Dalton, 2004). The concept in the tradition of Easton, Norris, and Dalton distinguishes between “objects of political support,” on the one hand, and “levels of support,” on the other.