Others think that the governments should just let each person get ahead on their own. The question that appears in the mockup is the Planning Committee's rewrite of a question that has been used elsewhere. Though most of us think Q18 is a substantial improvement over the original question, there are those who like the original question better. We urge you to run a controlled, random experiment in your pilot study. A random half of the respondents should be asked the question as it appears in the mockup.
Democracy is preferable to any other form of government.
Under some circumstances, an authoritarian regime, a dictatorship, is preferable to a democratic system. For people like me, one regime is the same as another. On the mockup we have only provided space for 6 parties for purpose of illustration. Other Variables that we Recommend Including in the Pilot Questionnaire Beyond the questionnaire module, there are a few background variables that we recommend including in the pilot questionnaire as a way to help validate the performance of the items in the questionnaire module. Following the spirit of the Planning Committee's Preliminary Recommendations, the objective here is not standardization of the way collaborators ask these questions.