DEVAL - Democratic Values and Authoritarian Legitimacy

DEVAL - 民主价值观和威权合法性

• 批准号: EP/Y036832/1
• 负责人: Scott Williamson
• 金额: $ 161.21万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY036832%2F1
• 关键词: DEVAL; Democratic; Values; Authoritarian; Legitimacy

DEVAL will examine popular attitudes toward democracy in a moment of global democratic decline by advancing knowledge of how people understand and support democracy, and how authoritarian political leaders manipulate this popular support for democratic values to increase their political legitimacy. The spread of democracy has important benefits worldwide, but the global trend has shifted back toward authoritarianism. Public support for democracy is an important factor for sustaining democratic governance, so it is important to develop an accurate appraisal of how much support exists and when it is more likely to strengthen democracy. Existing research relies on measures that likely overstate democratic support and overlook how this support can facilitate authoritarian outcomes in certain contexts. By designing new methods to identify how people understand democracy and how people trade democracy off against other political, social, and economic outcomes, DEVAL will develop ground-breaking advances in measuring support for democracy. DEVAL will also advance theoretical and empirical knowledge of the strategies authoritarian leaders use to strengthen their legitimacy by leveraging democratic values. DEVAL will rely on an innovative multi-method approach combining surveys, experiments, interviews, and focus groups to analyze the nature and consequences of support for democracy in ways that are more nuanced and more comprehensive than what exists in current literature. To accomplish this objective, the project will focus on ten countries carefully selected to provide variation in region, development, and regime type. The DEVAL project will provide state-of-the-art advancements to our methods and theories for understanding how people value democracy and how this support may sometimes facilitate authoritarianism. This research will be of significant relevance to debates about how to address the global trend toward autocracy.

DEVAL 将通过提高人们如何理解和支持民主的知识，以及威权政治领导人如何操纵这种民众对民主价值观的支持来提高其政治合法性，来研究在全球民主衰落的时刻民众对民主的态度。民主的传播给全世界带来了重要的好处，但全球趋势又回到了威权主义。公众对民主的支持是维持民主治理的重要因素，因此准确评估存在多少支持以及何时更有可能加强民主非常重要。现有的研究依赖于可能夸大民主支持的措施，而忽视了这种支持如何在某些情况下促进独裁结果。通过设计新方法来确定人们如何理解民主以及人们如何权衡民主与其他政治、社会和经济成果，DEVAL 将在衡量对民主的支持方面取得突破性进展。 DEVAL 还将推进独裁领导人通过利用民主价值观来加强其合法性的策略的理论和经验知识。 DEVAL 将依靠创新的多方法方法，结合调查、实验、访谈和焦点小组，以比现有文献更细致、更全面的方式分析支持民主的性质和后果。为了实现这一目标，该项目将重点关注精心挑选的十个国家，以提供地区、发展和政权类型的差异。 DEVAL 项目将为我们的方法和理论提供最先进的进步，以帮助我们了解人们如何评价民主以及这种支持有时会如何促进威权主义。这项研究对于如何应对全球独裁趋势的辩论具有重要意义。