BIO

My name is Alden Drackley and I am from Apopka, Florida. I have been interested in the world of politics since I was 12 years old and my knowledge and interest in the subject of politics and other related topics have grown tremendously since then. After graduation, I plan to either attend Law School and move onto working for the state in some fashion with my J.D.. However, my primary goal is to to pursue a career in the political world either by running for office or by working in the background such as on campaigns or as staff for a legislator.

Government Competency or Government Honesty? A Global Assessment of the Determinants of Public Support for Democracy

Abstract

The most basic idea for this research is to see if government performance affects public confidence in democracy. We want to see if government integrity levels of corruption affect public confidence or support for democracy and if there is any country difference in the global context. We do this by polling a large number of people in all categories, such as their education, location, age, marital status, trust in political parties, police, government and so on. The data is collected from the Middle East as well as Northern Africa through a party that had already collected this data for us - Arab Barometer. We then attempt to utilize this data to see if there is any sort of relation between two specific datas, specifically things that could have some kind of affect on public confidence and support for democracy. There was no main focus regarding the individuals being polled and we used all the data available to us so we could find any correlation that was possible to exist within these sets of data.

Keywords: Democracy, Government, Politics