{
  "alt": "Line chart with three lines across Wave 3, Wave 5 and Wave 7. The democracy-only line starts highest and falls. The democracy-and-an-alternative line starts in the middle and rises until it is close to the democracy-only line in Wave 7. The line for respondents who do not call a democratic system good is lowest and flat. The United States view shows five survey years with the same pattern and a rise in the lowest line.",
  "caption": "The democracy-only line falls and the democracy-and-an-alternative line rises by a similar amount, while the line for people who do not call a democratic system good stays level. The three shares add to the whole in each wave. Democracy only means a democratic system is good and neither a strong leader nor army rule is good.",
  "data": [
    {
      "conf_high": 37.9503,
      "conf_low": 28.4385,
      "estimate": 33.1944,
      "group": "Democracy and an alternative",
      "n": 45779,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 1996
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 43.2158,
      "conf_low": 31.8259,
      "estimate": 37.5208,
      "group": "Democracy and an alternative",
      "n": 61691,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 2007
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 51.0115,
      "conf_low": 37.946,
      "estimate": 44.4788,
      "group": "Democracy and an alternative",
      "n": 59782,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 2018
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 60.9622,
      "conf_low": 49.7156,
      "estimate": 55.3389,
      "group": "Democracy only",
      "n": 45779,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 1996
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 56.9982,
      "conf_low": 44.4159,
      "estimate": 50.7071,
      "group": "Democracy only",
      "n": 61691,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 2007
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 52.3851,
      "conf_low": 37.4242,
      "estimate": 44.9047,
      "group": "Democracy only",
      "n": 59782,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 2018
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 13.8144,
      "conf_low": 9.11903,
      "estimate": 11.4667,
      "group": "Does not call a democratic system good",
      "n": 45779,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 1996
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 13.6798,
      "conf_low": 9.86435,
      "estimate": 11.7721,
      "group": "Does not call a democratic system good",
      "n": 61691,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 2007
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 12.7058,
      "conf_low": 8.52734,
      "estimate": 10.6166,
      "group": "Does not call a democratic system good",
      "n": 59782,
      "n_countries": 39,
      "scope": "Fixed set",
      "x": 2018
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 24.8671,
      "conf_low": 19.8338,
      "estimate": 22.3505,
      "group": "Democracy and an alternative",
      "n": 1370,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 1995
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 29.305,
      "conf_low": 24.0592,
      "estimate": 26.6821,
      "group": "Democracy and an alternative",
      "n": 1138,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 1999
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 31.2887,
      "conf_low": 25.006,
      "estimate": 28.1473,
      "group": "Democracy and an alternative",
      "n": 1193,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2006
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 31.5974,
      "conf_low": 27.04,
      "estimate": 29.3187,
      "group": "Democracy and an alternative",
      "n": 2145,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2011
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 35.8234,
      "conf_low": 31.046,
      "estimate": 33.4347,
      "group": "Democracy and an alternative",
      "n": 2479,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2017
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 70.9963,
      "conf_low": 65.3689,
      "estimate": 68.1826,
      "group": "Democracy only",
      "n": 1370,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 1995
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 65.1609,
      "conf_low": 59.4125,
      "estimate": 62.2867,
      "group": "Democracy only",
      "n": 1138,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 1999
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 60.9152,
      "conf_low": 54.0083,
      "estimate": 57.4617,
      "group": "Democracy only",
      "n": 1193,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2006
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 55.3941,
      "conf_low": 50.3968,
      "estimate": 52.8955,
      "group": "Democracy only",
      "n": 2145,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2011
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 54.0553,
      "conf_low": 48.9943,
      "estimate": 51.5248,
      "group": "Democracy only",
      "n": 2479,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2017
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 11.2355,
      "conf_low": 7.69837,
      "estimate": 9.46693,
      "group": "Does not call a democratic system good",
      "n": 1370,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 1995
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 12.889,
      "conf_low": 9.1734,
      "estimate": 11.0312,
      "group": "Does not call a democratic system good",
      "n": 1138,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 1999
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 16.8427,
      "conf_low": 11.9391,
      "estimate": 14.3909,
      "group": "Does not call a democratic system good",
      "n": 1193,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2006
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 19.6999,
      "conf_low": 15.8716,
      "estimate": 17.7858,
      "group": "Does not call a democratic system good",
      "n": 2145,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2011
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 16.8505,
      "conf_low": 13.2305,
      "estimate": 15.0405,
      "group": "Does not call a democratic system good",
      "n": 2479,
      "n_countries": 1,
      "scope": "United States",
      "x": 2017
    }
  ],
  "id": "committed",
  "notes": [
    "Respondents who answered all three items. Intervals for the fixed set are clustered by country (t critical value on one fewer degree of freedom than the number of countries); intervals for one country use the Kish effective sample size. The WVS file has no strata or sampling units, so no interval includes design effects."
  ],
  "source": "World Values Survey and European Values Study, Waves 3, 5 and 7 (1995 to 2023); weighted (weight, S017 within country; equal weight per country across countries)",
  "spec": {
    "colors": {
      "Democracy and an alternative": "highlight",
      "Democracy only": "total",
      "Does not call a democratic system good": "muted"
    },
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n",
    "series": "group",
    "x": "x",
    "xDomain": [
      1993,
      2021
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "thousands": false
    },
    "xLabel": "Wave and fieldwork years",
    "xTicks": [
      {
        "label": "Wave 3 (1995 to 1998)",
        "value": 1996
      },
      {
        "label": "Wave 5 (2004 to 2009)",
        "value": 2007
      },
      {
        "label": "Wave 7 (2017 to 2023)",
        "value": 2018
      }
    ],
    "y": "estimate",
    "yDomain": [
      0,
      80
    ],
    "yLabel": "Share of respondents (percent)"
  },
  "subtitle": "Share of adults by combination of answers on the democratic-system, strong-leader and army items, equal-weight mean across the fixed set of countries, by wave",
  "title": "The share calling a democratic system good and rejecting both alternatives fell from {fact:only3} to {fact:only7} in the fixed set",
  "type": "line",
  "views": [
    {
      "filter": {
        "scope": "Fixed set"
      },
      "id": "fixed_set",
      "label": "Fixed set of countries"
    },
    {
      "caption": "The democracy-only share falls in every survey year after 1995 and the democracy-and-an-alternative share rises. Each point is a weighted share with a 95% interval from the Kish effective sample size.",
      "filter": {
        "scope": "United States"
      },
      "id": "united_states",
      "label": "United States",
      "spec": {
        "xDomain": [
          1993,
          2019
        ],
        "xLabel": "Year of the American survey",
        "xTicks": [
          1995,
          1999,
          2006,
          2011,
          2017
        ],
        "yDomain": [
          0,
          80
        ]
      },
      "title": "In the United States the democracy-only share fell from {fact:us_only95} to {fact:us_only17}"
    }
  ]
}