How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited

Mónica Ferrín is an associate professor at University of A Coruña (Spain). She worked previously at Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin and at the University of Zurich. Her main fields of research are public opinion, political participation and gender inequality in the public sphere.Hanspeter Kriesi is a part-time professor for Comparative Politics at the European University Institute in Florence. Previously, he held the Stein-Rokkan Chair at this university, as well as positions at the universities of Amsterdam, Geneva, and Zurich. 2017, he received the Mattei-Dogan Prize, and in 2022, honorary doctorates from the University of Lucerne and the Mid-Sweden University in Sundsvall. Together with colleagues from the LSE and the University of Milano he is currently working on an ERC Synergy project on the impact of the multiple crises on the resilience of the European Union.

• 1: Mónica Ferrín and Hanspeter Kriesi: Introduction2: Ruxandra Comanaru and Rory Fitzgerald: The challenges of repeat measurement in times of the COVID-19 pandemicPart I: Views of democracy3: Enrique Hernández: Stability and change in Europeans' views of democracy4: Mónica Ferrín and Levente Littvay: Populism as an alternative model of democracy: measuring and profiling the supporters of the populist model5: Hanspeter Kriesi: Stability and change in the structure of Europeans' views of democracy6: Besir Ceka and Pedro C. Magalhães: The correlates of European citizens' views of democracy7: Claudia Landwehr and Armin Schäfer: Changes in Europeans' evaluations of democracyPart II: evaluations of democracy8: Mariano Torcal and Alexander H. Trechsel: The evaluation of democratic performance from a comparative longitudinal perspective9: Irene Palacios: The relationship between views and evaluations of democracy10: Bernhard Wessels: Stability and change - legitimacy and populismPart III: Additional questions going beyond views and evaluations11: Sergio Martini: Support for democracy and support for autocracy: two sides of the same coin?12: Micha? Kotnarowski, Rados?aw Markowski: Political legitimacy and satisfaction with democracy in Europe13: Mónica Ferrín, Enrique Hernández and Pedro Riera: Democratic views and voting behavior14: Dietlind Stolle: Conclusion: For Europeans, democracy is alright

This is a heavily academic book and a tough read - but it has important messages to convey about the state of European democracy. It draws on the European Social Survey, an in-depth assessment of political culture, democratic health and attitudes towards democracy in 29 European countries, and it builds on a comparable exercise undertaken ten years earlier.