Global public survey opinion on a world parliament

As democracy faces pressure around the world and confidence in international law drops, a new global survey reveals that citizens in a vast majority of countries support the idea of creating a citizen-elected world parliament to deal with global issues. The survey, commissioned by Democracy Without Borders and conducted across 101 countries representing 90% of the world’s population, finds that 40% of respondents support the proposal, while only 27% are opposed. 33% selected a neutral stance. It is the largest poll ever carried out thus far on this subject.

Democracy Without Borders has released a report that presents and analyses the results of the survey. You can also read a summary of the report in a blog post from Democracy Without Borders here.