Americans are split down the middle on whether democracy is working for the country.
According to a poll published Thursday by the Associated Press, NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 49% of respondents said democracy is not working well in the U.S., while 10% believe it is working well or extremely well, leaving 40% to report the system is doing somewhat well.
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Some 1,220 adults were polled on the subject towards the end of June.
Respondents claimed that the two main political parties aren’t upholding democracy, with 47% saying the Democratic party does a bad job, and 56% saying the same of the Republican party. The majority 53% reported the views of “people like you” were not represented by policymakers, while only 12% reported the views are represented extremely well.
Meanwhile, 71% of respondents believe what voters want should be highly important during lawmaking, but only 48% believe it is truly in practice.
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Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers scored very similarly when it comes to their environmental policies, with roughly 50% reporting the polices do not reflect very well with respondent’s personal views. However Democratic lawmakers were off on upwards 70% of respondent’s opinions on the issues of guns and abortion. Republican lawmakers’ policies on immigration, government spending, and the economy disagreed with upwards of 70% of respondents.
The margin of error for this poll was plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
