Keywords: Subjective resilience capacity, Lithuania, Political attitudes, Support for democracy, ISSP

In this paper we focus on the study of resilience capacity of a society to resist and bounce back from crises and its subjective evaluative aspect – public perceptions of resilience capacity. Different analytical frameworks have been presented for measuring democratic resilience and its factors. Croissant and Lott (2024) have suggested that democratic resilience (and by extension resilience of any society, more generally) could be measured along two broad dimensions: performance and capacity. The former could be employed to evaluate how resilient a system actually is, and the latter the ability of that system to remain or to become resilient. Both of these dimensions have three analytically different outcomes: continuation, resistance and bounce back of a system after a crisis or shock.
In this paper we investigate how different factors, such as, public support for democracy, pride in country’s institutions (its economic, political, cultural etc. achievements), perceived features of society (polarization, populist leanings, resilience to fake news, trust in science etc.), individual political attitudes (ideology, populism etc.) and individual external political efficacy influence citizens’ views on resilience capacity of their polity. Our analysis is based on survey data collected for the 2023 ISSP module “National Identity & Citizenship” in summer of 2024 in Lithuania, relatively young democracy, member of the EU and other international democratic organizations. We employ descriptive and multivariate inferential statistical methods for this task.