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Recent data shows drastic decrease in the support for democracy among Azerbaijani population. The article engages this dramatic plunge in democracy support and tests hypotheses that explain the phenomenon.
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Population support for democracy and volatility of this support is important for determining whether democracy has stable basis and backing among wider public. In mature democracies the lack of population support may lead to democratic reversal.
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What determines the level of support for democracy in post-Soviet hybrid regimes? How stable is popular support for democracy, and what can explain its volatility? This article explores these questions using evidence from the European Bank of Research and Development's Life in Transition survey in Azerbaijan
Turkhan Sadigov
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This page is a summary of: Eroding support for democracy in Azerbaijan? Context and pitfalls in survey research, Caucasus Survey, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2017.1408246.
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