Can we Rate Public Support for Democracy in a Comparable Way? Cross-National Equivalence of Democratic Attitudes in the World Value Survey

@_alice_evans @maximananyev These scales are often not cross nationally comparable though https://t.co/VIYk7bAr23

@dsquareddigest @yngvlgrn Sure, that's always a challenge. "Democracy" is usually the hard one here -- 1980s/1990s survey respondents usually interpreted it just to mean "higher standard of living" https://t.co/VIYk7bAr23

7. And we still rely on survey items rigorous study has shown to lack validity or cross-national comparability. https://t.co/JH9F44yQmv https://t.co/1POGUPUAKz

RT @PCMagalhaes: There is by now considerable work on the problems of these so-called "overt" items on democratic support. Example: https:…