Crime, Economic Crisis, and Support for Democracy in México
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Mexican politics, crime, economic, democnitic decayAbstract
We argue that conditions of threat (compared to times of well-being) can induce individuals to place less value on democratic forms of governance. We test our argument in the context of Mexican politics and with respect to two types of threat that are arguably the most pressing issues today: crime and economic. Our data come from a national experiment implemented in the spring of 2009 and a national survey, the Americas Barometer, conducted in 2010. The experimental evidence supports our contention that threats can cause democratic decay among the mass public; the survey evidence provides a window into the generalizability of our findings.
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