Replication Data for: DOES IT SOUND LIKE DEMOCRACY? STUDENTS’ SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY IN POLAND AND UKRAINE

The functioning of political systems in Central and Eastern Europe provides one of the most important contexts directly or indirectly shaping the political attitudes of young citizens born and growing up in a period that was institutionally very different from that experienced by their parents and older acquaintances. Different trajectories of transformation, cultural disparities, uneven experiences of communism or inconsistent political and economic modernization should foster socialization into differently understood democratic values even in neighboring countries. To an even greater extent, they should determine subjective evaluations of the functioning of the political regime. Based on original survey data, this article analyzes the attitudes and evaluations of young Poles and Ukrainians toward democracy, looking for significant differences and similarities in the ways they understand, evaluate and support the political system.