Just more than two-thirds of respondents say in a new poll that they believe American democracy is getting weaker.

Sixty-eight percent of Americans said democracy in the U.S. is getting weaker, compared to 25 percent who said it is getting stronger.

Republicans surveyed by The Democracy Project appear divided on the characterization of democracy in the U.S., with 47 percent saying they see American democracy as "getting weaker" and 45 percent reporting that they believe it is "getting stronger."

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Seventy-nine percent of Democrats said American democracy is "getting weaker" and only 16 percent said it is "getting stronger."

A majority of Americans, 55 percent, now labels American democracy as “weak,” and 50 percent said the nation is in “real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.”

The survey also found that Americans are frustrated with the role of money in politics, with 77 percent of respondents saying they agree that “the laws enacted by our national government these days mostly reflect what powerful special interests and their lobbyists want.”

Seventy-one percent of those polled also said they are in favor of the U.S. government working to support human rights and democracy in other countries.

The Democracy Project is a joint initiative made up of the George W. Bush Institute, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and Freedom House. It is devoted to defending democracy in the U.S. and abroad.

The poll was conducted from April 28 to May 8, 2018, among 1,700 adults. The margin of error from the random survey of 1,400 respondents is 2.6 percentage points, while the margin of error for 795 opinion elites is 3.5 percentage points.