608 5 archive 91485 disk0/00/00/06/08 2026-03-31 09:48:05 2026-03-31 10:02:00 2026-03-31 09:48:05 dataset show Wuttke Alexander 0000-0002-9579-5357 Gavras Konstantin 0000-0002-9222-0101 Schoen Harald 0000-0001-8893-1579 320 10320 60550 Reproduction material for analyses and files underlying Shiny Web Application (http://democracy.alexander-wuttke.de). --- Best view of file structure in tree-mode --- For pre-registration plans, see: https://osf.io/bw5j3/registrations/ --- Abstract: Democracies without democrats are not sustainable. Yet, recent studies argue that Western citizens are turning their backs on the system of self-governance, thereby eroding the societal foundations of consolidated democracies. We contribute to discussions about citizen support of democracy by 1) analyzing new cross-national survey data in 18 European countries that enable assessing the temporal and geographical generalizability of previous findings; 2) disentangling age-, cohort-, and period effects, thereby aligning the analytical methods with the theoretical arguments; 3) transparently reporting the entire evidence derived from pre-registered analyses to avoid cherry-picked findings. Our findings show that citizens of consolidated democracies continue to endorse self-governance. Yet, in some but not all countries, there is evidence for a growing number of ‘democrats in name only’, particularly among the young generation. These findings suggest a second phase in research on democratic fatigue that broadens the analytical scope for the multi-faceted nature of democratic support. (2020-02-10) eng 2020 10.7801/608 https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Y5Y6VD metadata cc0 Wuttke, Alexander und Gavras, Konstantin und Schoen, Harald (2022), <a href='https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/id/eprint/53666' target='new'>Have Europeans grown tired of democracy? New evidence from 18 consolidated democracies, 1981-2018</a> FALSE