Measuring Variance and Complexity in Citizensī Understanding of Democracy Damarys Canache Department of Political Science University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois dcanache@uiuc.edu and Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales (CISOR) Caracas-Venezuela Prepared for the LAPOP-UNDP Workshop: Candidate Indicators for the UNDP Democracy Support Index (DSI), Vanderbilt University, May 2006