Ferrín, MónicaKriesi, Hanspeter2025-01-232016Ferrín, M., Kriesi, H. (eds.) (2016). How Europeans view and evaluate democracy. Oxford University Press978-0-19-876690-2http://hdl.handle.net/2183/40881[Abstract] Based on a new data-set covering 29 European and neighboring countries, this volume shows how, Europeans view and evaluate democracy: what are their conceptions of democracy, how do they assess the quality of democracy in their own country, and to what extent do they consider their country's democracy as legitimate? The study shows that Europeans share a common view of liberal democracy, which is complemented by elements of social and direct democracy, which go beyond the basic liberal model. The level of their demands in terms of democracy varies, however, considerably across Europe and is related to their assessment of democracy: the worse the quality of democracy in a given country, the higher the respective demands on democracy. The analysis of the determinants of democratic views and evaluations shows that they depend on the political and economic (but less on the cultural) context conditions.eng© Oxford University Press 2016bookembargoed access