Democracy Attitudes

In a paper M. Bratton and R. Mattes report on attitudes to democracy building:

The good news is that democratic attitudes are generally on the rise among the African populations we have surveyed. If sustained, this up-tick– measured prior to the onset of the global financial crisis in late 2008 – is a promising portent for
further democratization. But the bad news is that fewer than half of all Africans interviewed demand democracy and perceive its supply when these indicators are measured rigorously.As such, the project of democracy building still has a long way to go.