%0 Report
        %A Acemoglu, Daron
%A Ajzenman, Nicolas
%A Aksoy, Cevat Giray
%A Fiszbein, Martin
%A Molina, Carlos
        %T (Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14691
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14691
        %X Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an instrumental-variables strategy exploiting regional democratization waves and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are consistent with a causal interpretation. We also establish that democracies breed their own support only when they are successful: all of the effects we estimate work through exposure to democracies that are successful in providing economic growth, peace and political stability, and public goods.
        %K institutions
%K economic growth
%K democracy
%K support for democracy
%K values