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Strongman Leaders More Trusted than Democrats in Developing World

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

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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: 1) by khallow on Wednesday October 19 2016, @10:01PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 19 2016, @10:01PM (#416376) Journal

    I clearly stated before that authoritarian rule can be better for their citizens.

    Ok, I guess so. But it tends to be rather easy to lose citizenship status in an authoritarian government. For example, there were way too many proscription lists bandied about (death if captured and seizure of property being a usual consequence, if you were on the list) during the transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire and later.