This essay aims to examine if national crises changes people's attitude towards democracy and also examine if there is a connection between the trust for the institutions and changes in the attitudes towards democracy. The essay is a comparative study who extends from 1996 to 2017 and includes 10 national crises. To compare attitudes over the years, surveys from "SOM-institutet" is used. The result of the essay is that crises changes people´s attitude towards democracy, both in a positive way and negative way and there is a connection between the trust for the institutions. The crises where the trust goes up also tend to change the attitude for democracy in a positive way, and vice versa when the trust goes down. But this essay can not say with certainty that there are no other elements that effects people's attitude towards democracy, aside from the crises.
2020-06-04