{
  "alt": "Dot chart with six rows, one for each norm question, and a dot for Democrats, adults naming neither party and Republicans in each row. On the four importance questions the shares are between {fact:norm_media_rep} and {fact:norm_conseq_dem} for the two parties, with Republicans below Democrats in each row. On presidents ignoring Congress and the courts the Democratic share is {fact:norm_pres_dem} and the Republican share {fact:norm_pres_rep}, and on restricting journalists' access they are {fact:norm_journ_dem} and {fact:norm_journ_rep}.",
  "caption": "On the four importance questions the Republican dot is to the left of the Democratic dot, and on the two questions about presidents and journalists it is to the right, at lower levels in both parties. Each dot is the weighted share giving the answer named in the row, and each line is a 95% interval that follows the sampling design. Adults naming neither party are shown for reference.",
  "data": [
    {
      "conf_high": 68.1265,
      "conf_low": 62.6807,
      "estimate": 65.4036,
      "group": "Democrats",
      "item": "News organizations free to criticize leaders: very or extremely important",
      "n": 2548
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 50.7604,
      "conf_low": 35.0132,
      "estimate": 42.8868,
      "group": "Neither party",
      "item": "News organizations free to criticize leaders: very or extremely important",
      "n": 347
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 54.2366,
      "conf_low": 47.4474,
      "estimate": 50.842,
      "group": "Republicans",
      "item": "News organizations free to criticize leaders: very or extremely important",
      "n": 2320
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 86.0229,
      "conf_low": 81.8546,
      "estimate": 83.9387,
      "group": "Democrats",
      "item": "Branches check one another: very or extremely important",
      "n": 2545
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 64.9683,
      "conf_low": 50.3923,
      "estimate": 57.6803,
      "group": "Neither party",
      "item": "Branches check one another: very or extremely important",
      "n": 351
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 81.3996,
      "conf_low": 75.5631,
      "estimate": 78.4813,
      "group": "Republicans",
      "item": "Branches check one another: very or extremely important",
      "n": 2325
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 93.3974,
      "conf_low": 90.0059,
      "estimate": 91.7017,
      "group": "Democrats",
      "item": "Consequences for misconduct: very or extremely important",
      "n": 2549
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 81.0497,
      "conf_low": 68.0775,
      "estimate": 74.5636,
      "group": "Neither party",
      "item": "Consequences for misconduct: very or extremely important",
      "n": 352
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 88.5428,
      "conf_low": 83.6811,
      "estimate": 86.1119,
      "group": "Republicans",
      "item": "Consequences for misconduct: very or extremely important",
      "n": 2325
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 80.6236,
      "conf_low": 75.7328,
      "estimate": 78.1782,
      "group": "Democrats",
      "item": "Agreement on basic facts: very or extremely important",
      "n": 2540
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 61.5792,
      "conf_low": 45.1591,
      "estimate": 53.3691,
      "group": "Neither party",
      "item": "Agreement on basic facts: very or extremely important",
      "n": 352
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 72.8421,
      "conf_low": 66.4564,
      "estimate": 69.6492,
      "group": "Republicans",
      "item": "Agreement on basic facts: very or extremely important",
      "n": 2321
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 18.3772,
      "conf_low": 13.7097,
      "estimate": 16.0434,
      "group": "Democrats",
      "item": "Helpful if presidents could ignore Congress and the courts",
      "n": 2531
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 24.0894,
      "conf_low": 11.7778,
      "estimate": 17.9336,
      "group": "Neither party",
      "item": "Helpful if presidents could ignore Congress and the courts",
      "n": 347
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 22.302,
      "conf_low": 17.6931,
      "estimate": 19.9975,
      "group": "Republicans",
      "item": "Helpful if presidents could ignore Congress and the courts",
      "n": 2315
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 13.1798,
      "conf_low": 9.11158,
      "estimate": 11.1457,
      "group": "Democrats",
      "item": "Favor officials restricting journalists' access",
      "n": 2537
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 18.4344,
      "conf_low": 7.97226,
      "estimate": 13.2033,
      "group": "Neither party",
      "item": "Favor officials restricting journalists' access",
      "n": 349
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 18.0087,
      "conf_low": 13.6103,
      "estimate": 15.8095,
      "group": "Republicans",
      "item": "Favor officials restricting journalists' access",
      "n": 2314
    }
  ],
  "id": "norms",
  "notes": [
    "Democrats and Republicans include leaners. The four importance questions ask how important each practice is to the United States maintaining a strong democracy; very or extremely important are the top two of five answers. Intervals are 95% intervals from a Taylor-series variance that uses the survey strata and primary sampling units, with the t distribution and the design degrees of freedom. A cell needs at least 100 respondents and an effective sample of 100; no plotted cell fell below that floor.",
    "Refusals, break-offs and respondents not asked are left out of each share. The paper questionnaire omitted most of these questions."
  ],
  "source": "ANES 2024 Time Series, pre-election interviews, 2024; weighted (V240107a); 95% design-based intervals",
  "spec": {
    "colors": {
      "All adult citizens": "total",
      "Democrats": "dem",
      "Independents and leaners": "ind",
      "Neither party": "ind",
      "Republicans": "rep"
    },
    "group": "group",
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "legend": true,
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n",
    "sort": "data",
    "x": "estimate",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      100
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 0,
      "suffix": "%"
    },
    "xLabel": "Share of the group (%)",
    "y": "item"
  },
  "subtitle": "Share giving the stated answer on six norm questions, by party identification with leaners; pre-election 2024",
  "table": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "item",
        "label": "Question and answer"
      },
      {
        "key": "group",
        "label": "Group"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "estimate",
        "label": "Share (%)"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "conf_low",
        "label": "Lower"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "conf_high",
        "label": "Upper"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "n",
        "label": "Respondents"
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "Republicans were less likely than Democrats to rate four democratic practices important and more likely to favor presidential freedom from Congress and the courts or limits on journalists",
  "type": "dot"
}