http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/943/jacob-r-elsen Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:33:06 -0400 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:33:06 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/681/public-opinion-democracy-and-the-economy-case-studies-from-the-southern-cone By Jacob R. Elsen - Utilizing 2009 data from the Latinobarómetro public opinion survey and bivariate statistical methods, this study assesses the degree to which respondents’ evaluations of both national economic conditions and their personal economic conditions are associated with their overt and intrinsic support for democracy in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. This study finds that the three overt support for democracy variables employed in this analysis were highly volatile, both when compared among themselves and when compared across the countries sampled. The five intrinsic support variables... Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/681/public-opinion-democracy-and-the-economy-case-studies-from-the-southern-cone