QoG Data

Approval of Democracy

QoG code: bti_aod

How strong is the citizens' approval of democratic norms and procedures? From 1 to 10.

Approval of democratic norms and procedures is very low.
Approval of democratic norms and procedures is fairly low.
Approval of democratic norms and procedures is fairly high.
Approval of democratic norms and procedures is very high.

Dataset

Bertelsmann Transformation Index

Type of variable

Categorical

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2025-09-29

Last updated by source

2024-03-17

Categories

Political System

Find this variable in

Basic Cross-section - 2026 Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original dataset

Details of this variable in our compilation datasets

Dataset	No. Countries
Basic cross-section	75
Standard cross-section	75
Standard time-series	86

Dataset	Available for years
Standard time-series	2005-2023

Country coverage

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Year coverage

This variable has information from 2005 to 2023.