LONDON: A majority of the population in India prefers a "strong" leader and is satisfied with the performance of the national government, according to a study of voters across 19 countries, including the world's three largest democracies, released on Thursday.
The report titled 'Perceptions of Democracy: A Survey About How People Assess Democracy Around the World' was released by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), which was founded in 1995 with the mandate to support sustainable democracy around the world. Was done with.
Nineteen countries were surveyed, including India, the US, Denmark, Italy, Brazil, Pakistan and Iraq. Surveys were also conducted in Taiwan, Chilean Colombia, Gambia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Korea, and Tanzania.
The study notes that people in the countries surveyed are generally more dissatisfied than satisfied with their governments.However, “India and Tanzania are known to have high levels of trust in institutions and satisfaction with governments,” it said.
In 17 out of 19 countries, less than half of people are satisfied with their governments, and this pattern applies across low-income groups to self-identified minorities, including countries that experts consider high-performing .
"India and Tanzania express satisfaction or complete satisfaction with their national governments with 59 percent and 79 percent respectively," the study said.
In India, this is in line with other opinion polls, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's domestic approval rating has long been at or above 66 percent, the study said.
“In almost half of the contexts (nine countries), members of self-identified minority groups are more likely than others to be highly dissatisfied with their government.In the United States, the satisfaction gap between minorities and others is 12 percentage points. The difference in satisfaction in Denmark (6 points), Italy (points) and Taiwan (20 points) is also significant.
"These four countries are also among those where low-income residents are most likely to be dissatisfied with the government compared to the rest of the country," the study said.
The study said many Indians prefer a "strong" leader.
“In 8 out of 19 countries, more people have favorable than unfavorable views of a ‘strong leader’.There is no country where a majority of respondents have 'highly unfavorable' views of non-democratic leadership... There is less support for a 'strong leader' in countries with higher levels of representation, but India and Tanzania "Countries emerge as having the highest levels of support for a 'strong leader'," the 95-page report said in its key findings.
The countries surveyed, which include the world's three largest democracies (Brazil, India and the US), were chosen to cover a wide range of geo-economic and political contexts.
International IDEA contracted market research and data analytics firms YouGov and GeoPoll to run the survey in 19 countries.
The surveys were conducted in other countries last year and in India in January this year.
A representative sample of the population from each country (approximately 1,000 people) and an additional sample of those whose household income indicated they were experiencing poverty (approximately 500 people) were surveyed.
The report titled 'Perceptions of Democracy: A Survey About How People Assess Democracy Around the World' was released by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), which was founded in 1995 with the mandate to support sustainable democracy around the world. Was done with.
Nineteen countries were surveyed, including India, the US, Denmark, Italy, Brazil, Pakistan and Iraq. Surveys were also conducted in Taiwan, Chilean Colombia, Gambia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Korea, and Tanzania.
The study notes that people in the countries surveyed are generally more dissatisfied than satisfied with their governments.However, “India and Tanzania are known to have high levels of trust in institutions and satisfaction with governments,” it said.
In 17 out of 19 countries, less than half of people are satisfied with their governments, and this pattern applies across low-income groups to self-identified minorities, including countries that experts consider high-performing .
"India and Tanzania express satisfaction or complete satisfaction with their national governments with 59 percent and 79 percent respectively," the study said.
In India, this is in line with other opinion polls, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's domestic approval rating has long been at or above 66 percent, the study said.
“In almost half of the contexts (nine countries), members of self-identified minority groups are more likely than others to be highly dissatisfied with their government.In the United States, the satisfaction gap between minorities and others is 12 percentage points. The difference in satisfaction in Denmark (6 points), Italy (points) and Taiwan (20 points) is also significant.
"These four countries are also among those where low-income residents are most likely to be dissatisfied with the government compared to the rest of the country," the study said.
The study said many Indians prefer a "strong" leader.
“In 8 out of 19 countries, more people have favorable than unfavorable views of a ‘strong leader’.There is no country where a majority of respondents have 'highly unfavorable' views of non-democratic leadership... There is less support for a 'strong leader' in countries with higher levels of representation, but India and Tanzania "Countries emerge as having the highest levels of support for a 'strong leader'," the 95-page report said in its key findings.
The countries surveyed, which include the world's three largest democracies (Brazil, India and the US), were chosen to cover a wide range of geo-economic and political contexts.
International IDEA contracted market research and data analytics firms YouGov and GeoPoll to run the survey in 19 countries.
The surveys were conducted in other countries last year and in India in January this year.
A representative sample of the population from each country (approximately 1,000 people) and an additional sample of those whose household income indicated they were experiencing poverty (approximately 500 people) were surveyed.
