TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Acemoglu, Daron
AU  - Ajzenman, Nicolas
AU  - Aksoy, Cevat Giray
AU  - Fiszbein, Martin
AU  - Molina, Carlos
        TI  - (Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support
        PY  - 2021/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14691
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14691
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - institutions
KW  - economic growth
KW  - democracy
KW  - support for democracy
KW  - values
        ER  -