{"id":29341,"date":"2016-11-16T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2016\/11\/16\/voters-are-fed-up-with-politicians-but-that-doesnt-mean-theyve-given-up-on-democracy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:56:53","slug":"voters-are-fed-up-with-politicians-but-that-doesnt-mean-theyve-given-up-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2016\/11\/16\/voters-are-fed-up-with-politicians-but-that-doesnt-mean-theyve-given-up-on-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters are fed up with politicians. But that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ve given up on democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Special to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/11\/pew-research-democracy-richard-wike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Economic Forum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>Governments seem to be getting poor reviews around much of the globe. In Western and non-Western nations, in the Global South and the Global North, disillusionment with politicians is widespread. Anti-establishment parties are on the rise in many European nations, and Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the US presidential race has dramatically highlighted a broad discontent with the status quo in American politics. And, as our <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2015\/02\/12\/discontent-with-politics-common-in-many-emerging-and-developing-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveys<\/a> at the Pew Research Center have shown, there is also considerable discontent with the way the political system is working in emerging and developing nations as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>Part of the problem is that people believe their political leaders are out of touch, listening to the few rather than the many. In eight of nine countries we recently <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2016\/10\/24\/even-in-era-of-disillusionment-many-around-the-world-say-ordinary-citizens-can-influence-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polled<\/a>, more than half said government is run for the benefit of only a few groups in society, not for all people. This finding echoes complaints regularly heard in the US and Europe about distant elites in Washington and Brussels, or the frustration many feel in middle and lower income nations about corrupt officials in their capital cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/11\/pew-research-democracy-richard-wike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Economic Forum<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments seem to be getting poor reviews around much of the globe. 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