In April 2018, Bright Line Watch conducted its fifth expert survey, and its third public survey, on democracy in the United States. Between April 9 and 22, we surveyed an expert sample of 935 political science faculty at American universities and a nationally representative sample of 2,000 adults. Respondents in both surveys assessed the degree to which 27 democratic principles (listed in the Appendix to this report) are currently upheld in the United States.
We report two principal findings below. First, both public and expert respondents continue to rate U.S. democratic performance lower than in our September 2017 surveys in a number of areas. However, results indicate little change in perceptions of democratic performance relative to our most recent prior public and expert surveys, which were conducted in January 2018. CONT.
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