## 3 Results and Discussion
### Subsystem Evaluation Findings and Analysis
#### 3.2.1 Findings and Analysis of the Political Climate Evaluation  
The political climate evaluation result is shown in Figure 4 and Table 6. The Baltic countries remain ahead of the rest of the countries. Estonia performs the best in this indicator, with an average score of 0.2278 from 2009 to 2018, significantly higher than other countries' level. Lithuania and Latvia are ranked fourth and fifth in CEE countries with scores of 0.1634 and 0.1571, respectively, showing a relatively complete institutional supply capacity. Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Poland ranked second, third, and sixth out of 16 countries with scores of 0.1705, 0.1652, and 0.1531, which indicate an ideal institutional climate. The institutional supply capacity of Balkan countries is relatively low among the 16 countries. All of the countries in the Balkans are in the low level, among which Bosnia and Herzegovina has the lowest score, with a 10-year average score of only 0.0262. Their level of political resource supply needs to be optimized. At the same time, in terms of dynamics, the Balkans are the most optimized region as a whole. Serbia, Albania and Montenegro rank first, second and fifth \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & **2009** & **2010** & **2011** & **2012** & **2013** & **2014** & **2015** \\ \hline Albania & 0.2955 & 0.3397 & 0.3664 & 0.3530 & 0.3072 & 0.2824 & 0.3638 \\ Bosnia and herzegovina & 0.1691 & 0.1784 & 0.1593 & 0.2284 & 0.2733 & 0.2177 & 0.1451 \\ Bulgaria & 0.3480 & 0.3314 & 0.3212 & 0.3402 & 0.3357 & 0.3020 & 0.3051 \\ Croatia & 0.4630 & 0.4484 & 0.4420 & 0.4400 & 0.4627 & 0.4429 & 0.3992 \\ Czech & 0.6553 & 0.6635 & 0.6438 & 0.6295 & 0.6153 & 0.6296 & 0.6581 \\ Estonia & 0.7518 & 0.7908 & 0.8027 & 0.7930 & 0.7998 & 0.8097 & 0.8056 \\ Hungary & 0.5454 & 0.5699 & 0.5724 & 0.5347 & 0.5263 & 0.5282 & 0.5133 \\ Latvia & 0.5873 & 0.5772 & 0.6005 & 0.6372 & 0.6423 & 0.6377 & 0.6266 \\ Lithuania & 0.5796 & 0.5771 & 0.5561 & 0.6148 & 0.6026 & 0.5805 & 0.6078 \\ Montenegro & 0.4073 & 0.4695 & 0.4662 & 0.4647 & 0.4334 & 0.4019 & 0.3855 \\ Macedonia & 0.3812 & 0.4113 & 0.3949 & 0.4002 & 0.4109 & 0.4622 & 0.4185 \\ Poland & 0.5114 & 0.5360 & 0.5217 & 0.5397 & 0.5571 & 0.5537 & 0.5516 \\ Romania & 0.4121 & 0.3672 & 0.3265 & 0.2883 & 0.3169 & 0.3595 & 0.3783 \\ Serbia & 0.2563 & 0.2440 & 0.2273 & 0.2224 & 0.2332 & 0.2430 & 0.2182 \\ Slovakia & 0.6406 & 0.6086 & 0.5690 & 0.5744 & 0.5377 & 0.5262 & 0.5042 \\ Slovenia & 0.8299 & 0.7569 & 0.6950 & 0.6946 & 0.6718 & 0.6573 & 0.6700 \\ \hline  & **2016** & **2017** & **2018** & **Average** & **Rank** & \
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\begin{tabular}{} \end{tabular} \\ \hline Albania & 0.3859 & 0.3966 & 0.4183 & 0.3509 & 13 & 41.6\% & 1 \\ Bosnia & 0.1101 & 0.1178 & 0.0982 & 0.1697 & 16 & \(-\)41.9\% & 16 \\ Bulgaria & 0.3486 & 0.3403 & 0.3396 & 0.3312 & 14 & \(-\)2.4\% & 10 \\ Croatia & 0.3900 & 0.3694 & 0.3667 & 0.4224 & 10 & \(-\)20.8\% & 13 \\ Czech & 0.6536 & 0.6452 & 0.6513 & 0.6445 & 3 & \(-\)0.6\% & 8 \\ Estonia & 0.8324 & 0.8433 & 0.8546 & 0.8084 & 1 & 13.7\% & 3 \\ Hungary & 0.4656 & 0.4869 & 0.4726 & 0.5215 & 8 & \(-\)13.3\% & 11 \\ Latvia & 0.6045 & 0.5659 & 0.6191 & 0.6098 & 4 & 5.4\% & 6 \\ Lithuania & 0.6183 & 0.5751 & 0.6023 & 0.5914 & 5 & 3.9\% & 7 \\ Montenegro & 0.3794 & 0.3863 & 0.4461 & 0.4240 & 9 & 9.5\% & 4 \\ Macedonia & 0.3986 & 0.3308 & 0.2647 & 0.3873 & 11 & \(-\)30.6\% & 15 \\ Poland & 0.5550 & 0.5518 & 0.5427 & 0.5421 & 7 & 6.1\% & 5 \\ Romania & 0.3456 & 0.3416 & 0.4026 & 0.3539 & 12 & \(-\)2.3\% & 9 \\ Serbia & 0.2294 & 0.2732 & 0.3154 & 0.2463 & 15 & 23.0\% & 2 \\ Slovakia & 0.5018 & 0.4908 & 0.5036 & 0.5457 & 6 & \(-\)21.4\% & 14 \\ Slovenia & 0.6926 & 0.6941 & 0.7102 & 0.7072 & 2 & \(-\)14.4\% & 12 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 5: Evaluation results of investment climate of CEE countries 2009–2018. among CEE countries with 93.0%, 61.2% and 6.2% growth rates, respectively. The Visegrad Group and Slovenia have experienced a deterioration in institutional supply.