Public Opinion Quarterly, the top peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, has published a new article by our Senior Research Analyst Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, “Should Researchers Abandon Questions about ‘Democracy’? Evidence from Latin America.” Available via advance access online, the article shows that standard questions on “democracy” lead Latin Americans to overstate their actual commitment to the concept by focusing on abstractions rather than practice. Nonetheless, Kiewiet de Jonge shows that these often-used “democracy” questions remain useful for understanding how individuals come to support democratic governments.