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Upport for Democracy Figure 1 shows the mean level of expressed support for democracy for the 12 countries covered in ound 1 Afrobarometer surveys and the 15 countries covered in Round 2. [...] This is partly a function of the large numbers of respondents in Ghana ize the word "democracy" in English, which represented a change in the method try between Round 1 and Round 2. [...] For each country, we calculate the number of months elapsed from the last electoral alternation or, in the cases of Tanzania and Uganda (which have never experienced a change of ruling parties at the polls), since the multiparty transition.12 We find that, as expected, every democratic attitude examined here - on both the demand and supply sides - is negatively related to the passage of time.13 In. [...] Moreover, the argument abou countries for which we have only one experienced an alternation of ruling p above-average extent of democracy in of its election, the perceived extent of 58 percent). [...] For more info 14 The alternation in Lesotho was not a s years following the transition election of Lesotho Congress of Democrats (LCD) in overwhelming LCD victory, was repudia Only after a fresh election was held in M opposition Basotho National Party (BNP Although the process was elongated and by electoral means and according to rules Fig 9: Change in Extent of Democracy The Effect of Electoral A.