Prominent recent work argues that support for democracy behaves thermostatically—that democratic erosion boosts democratic support while deepening democracy yields public backlash—and further contends
Supplementary materials to: Xuereb, S., Wohl, M. J. A., Stefaniak, A., & Elgar, F. J. (2021). Social and economic determinants of support for a strong non-democratic leader in democracies differ from
Immigration and growing diversity have been linked with pathologies such as lower social capital, the rise of authoritarian populists, intergroup conflict, and perhaps the breakdown of democracy itsel