Keywords: social capital, legitimacy, democracy
The paper treats the relation between legitimacy of democracy and social capital. Analysis of the ISSP 2004 survey shows that in the Czech Republic the affective legitimacy of democracy is primarily influenced by political culture in its vertical dimension and trust in institutions. As for the horizontal dimension of political culture we can find only impact of cultural part of social capital, tolerance and social trust, whereas the civic participation has no effect to attitudes to democracy.
