Sixty-five percent of Guyanese would be willing to trade away elections for material guarantees, a new survey report has found.
The ‘Who Is Willing to Trade Away Elections for Material Guarantees’ report is part of the Vanderbilt University and Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) Lab’s Insights series. The report issued on September 13 evaluated a country, sociodemographic, and political predictors of an individual’s willingness to trade elections for material guarantees of basic income and services. The report utilizes responses from the 2021 round of LAPOP’s AmericasBarometer survey.
According to the report, 14,651 survey participants from 22 countries across the Americas answered the question: Which political system seems best for (country): a system that guarantees access to a basic income and services for all citizens, even if the authorities cannot be elected, or to be able to vote to elect the authorities, even if some people do not have access to a basic income and services?