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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 19 2016, @02:28PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday October 19 2016, @02:28PM (#416145) Journal

    That reads pretty accurate to me. But then, you have to acknowledge that the Right had seized the commanding heights of government, business, and international institutions like the IMF, World Bank, etc. The entirety of the post-WWII global financial system has been tailor-made to right-wing specifications.

    Want to have free and fair elections in a South American country? Too bad [wikipedia.org]!

    Want a mortgage to buy a house while being black? Too bad [wikipedia.org]!

    Want your freely elected leaders to regulate resource extraction in your country? Too bad [wikipedia.org]!

    All of those things are real, and they were not aberrations. They were policy, and are policy. You could cite a hundred more cases like them. You could probably cite a hundred more cases like them in the last 3 years, the way things have been accelerating.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by khallow on Wednesday October 19 2016, @03:17PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 19 2016, @03:17PM (#416164) Journal
    Want the world to work in a certain way and it just doesn't work that way? Too bad [oxforddictionaries.com]!

    It's highly delusional to portray the communist takeover of Chile in the 1970s as merely having free and fair elections. It's delusional to ignore that certain regions of the US would be and often still are vicious money sinks for banking and similar businesses and that this characteristic is way too frequently ethnicity-based. It's delusional to equate outright theft from more powerful countries with mere regulation of resource extraction (Iran's takeover of foreign oil company assets in the early 1950s, for those not in the know BTW).

    I won't pretend that the activities you coyly refer to as being the fault of some imaginary "Right" weren't harmful and unworthy of the developed world and the US in particular. But you blatantly sugarcoat some pretty vile problems and actions in the first place. Who knew that evil actions had evil consequences? Who knew that slums weren't banking magnets? People with half a brain knew.

    All of those things are real, and they were not aberrations. They were policy, and are policy. You could cite a hundred more cases like them. You could probably cite a hundred more cases like them in the last 3 years, the way things have been accelerating.

    It's policy for virtually every country to further the interests of that country. It's never policy to just enable the greed or lust of power of some outside party that decided to walk all over those interests. Similarly, banks and other businesses are here to make a profit not throw money down some rathole because the multi-cultural gods demand a sacrifice.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @04:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @04:26PM (#416199)

      Its funny to see how you get angry whenever your preconceptions are challenged.
      Its almost as if you think repeating your beliefs more forcefully and disdainfully will make them more true.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 19 2016, @08:56PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday October 19 2016, @08:56PM (#416333) Journal

      Want the world to work in a certain way and it just doesn't work that way?

      I see. So if the Right commits evil acts we shouldn't talk about that or even mention it because "that's just how they are?" I guess it's delusional to discuss how the Right has overthrown democratically elected leaders and destabilized entire countries and oppressed entire ethnicities, because it's ok when we're doing that to other countries or to people who are not white. Let's not talk about that at all, eh khallow, because it's profoundly naive to expect the Right to comport themselves with honor, justice, and compassion?

      But let's do fly into a rage when we talk about academics who got a little carried away when they were questioning the use of language. Sure, that didn't physically harm anyone or oppress anyone in a profitable way, but it simply got khallow's dander up, and That. Will. Not. Stand!

      It's highly delusional to portray the communist takeover of Chile in the 1970s as merely having free and fair elections

      Right? Who wouldn't prefer a right-wing fascist with death squads to a democratically elected social democrat? It's almost like people don't want to be disappeared, tortured, murdered, and dumped in unmarked graves. What's the world coming to?!

      It's delusional to ignore that certain regions of the US would be and often still are vicious money sinks for banking and similar businesses and that this characteristic is way too frequently ethnicity-based.

      I'm white. You're black. I get a mortgage and a home. You don't. What's there to figure out?

      It's delusional to equate outright theft from more powerful countries with mere regulation of resource extraction

      How dare they live on top of OUR oil, right? I mean, it's almost as if they think the stuff in their country is theirs to do with as they please.

      you coyly refer

      I am never coy.

      you blatantly sugarcoat

      I don't have a sweet tooth. I prefer acid.

      Who knew that evil actions had evil consequences?

      Khallow doesn't. Khallow doesn't know that.

      It's policy for virtually every country to further the interests of that country. It's never policy to just enable the greed or lust of power of some outside party that decided to walk all over those interests.

      Ah, here at last I think we know how to parse what you write. Much like we are advised to append "...in bed" to the predictions in fortune cookies, we must append "...unless [khallow|the United States] [says so|does it]" to what you write.

      Similarly, banks and other businesses are here to make a profit not throw money down some rathole because the multi-cultural gods demand a sacrifice.

      It does sound like I triggered you. Sorry about that. Maybe you can check into the safe space nearest you where you can curl up into a little ball while big sweaty men named Bubba can stroke your hair and tell you it's ok to have irrational hatred for everyone who's not a white American man...

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