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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-sausage dept.

Authoritarian leaders are seen as far more trustworthy than politicians in more openly democratic countries across the emerging world, according to data compiled by the World Economic Forum.

Leaders in Singapore, the Gulf states and Rwanda are rated as having the highest ethical standards in the emerging markets, closely followed by their Chinese and central Asian counterparts.

In contrast, politicians in democracies such as Brazil, Paraguay, Nigeria, Mexico and Romania are seen as exhibiting the lowest ethical standards.

Overall, among the 20 emerging market countries rated as having the most trustworthy politicians in the 2016 survey, 13 are rated as "not free" by Freedom House, a US government-funded non-governmental organisation, with three classed as partly free and just four classed as free.

Among the 20 emerging markets whose politicians are seen as having the lowest ethical standards, not one is classed by Freedom House as not free, with six free and 14 partly free.

https://www.ft.com/content/79d1ce36-8ca9-11e6-8aa5-f79f5696c731

Might be paywalled, but I got in using my normal combination of noscript, self-destructing cookies, and referrer spoofing (from google.com).

Text without charts: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2016/10/1823541-polls-show-low-approval-of-the-ethical-standards-of-leaders-in-latin-america.shtml


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by korger on Wednesday October 19 2016, @10:39AM

    by korger (4465) on Wednesday October 19 2016, @10:39AM (#416079)

    Try to criticize the leaders of an authoritarian regime, and they'll put you away in no time. To me the fact that the leaders of democracies appear more corrupt to their people is nothing but the result of that in democracies people are more confident to voice their opinions, and spread their discontent to other people. Also the leaders of totalitarian countries have a stronger control on state media and education systems, which they use to brainwash people to believe that everything is rosy.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday October 19 2016, @12:07PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 19 2016, @12:07PM (#416092)

    Usually "the future is already here just unevenly distributed" applies to technology but its interesting that in the USA it applies to politics.

    Imagine the result in the USA of an academic, a legacy media journalist, or a public school teacher opposing the one true democratic party. Everything up to beatings in the streets by activists. They just aren't being shot... yet.

    Then consider the implications brought up by email evidence of the merger of the Democratic party and media and education systems... We already live in a totalitarian state.

    Thats why "everyone" says Trump is evil, Trump is hitler, Trump is double plus ungood think, etc.