Survey question from WVS 7
Category: GOVERNANCE & POLITICAL SYSTEMS — POLITICAL CULTURE & POLITICAL REGIMES
Q245: Democracy: The army takes over when government is incompetent
Question: Many things are desirable, but not all of them are essential characteristics of democracy. How essential do you think 'The army takes over when government is incompetent' is as a characteristic of democracy? Please use this scale, with '1' meaning 'not at all an essential characteristic of democracy' and '10' meaning 'definitely an essential characteristic of democracy'. Provide a number only.
Response scale: 1 to 10
Responses by country (mean, answer distribution):
Iran: (4.32, {'1': '28.08%', '5': '25.36%', '8': '7.16%', '6': '7.09%', '2': '6.54%', '4': '6.00%', '10': '5.86%', '3': '5.73%', '7': '4.43%', '9': '3.75%'})
Iraq: (6.82, {'10': '21.33%', '8': '13.75%', '9': '13.75%', '6': '10.67%', '7': '10.17%', '5': '10.08%', '1': '7.33%', '4': '5.50%', '3': '5.08%', '2': '2.33%'})
Jordan: (5.49, {'1': '22.02%', '10': '18.38%', '5': '12.92%', '7': '8.83%', '6': '8.46%', '8': '8.19%', '4': '6.19%', '9': '5.73%', '3': '5.46%', '2': '3.82%'})
Lebanon: (6.04, {'7': '14.68%', '5': '13.08%', '8': '12.41%', '10': '11.48%', '6': '11.48%', '4': '8.61%', '9': '8.44%', '3': '7.76%', '2': '6.75%', '1': '5.32%'})
Libya: (7.33, {'10': '43.22%', '5': '10.81%', '1': '9.00%', '9': '8.44%', '8': '7.77%', '7': '5.78%', '6': '4.27%', '4': '4.17%', '3': '3.41%', '2': '3.13%'})
Morocco: (5.02, {'1': '20.08%', '5': '16.33%', '10': '12.67%', '2': '9.58%', '6': '9.50%', '8': '8.92%', '7': '7.92%', '4': '6.50%', '3': '5.33%', '9': '3.17%'})
Turkey: (7.26, {'10': '28.22%', '6': '13.06%', '8': '12.08%', '7': '11.69%', '5': '11.09%', '9': '10.36%', '4': '5.61%', '1': '3.38%', '3': '3.34%', '2': '1.16%'})
Tunisia: (5.56, {'1': '18.62%', '10': '18.53%', '5': '12.41%', '6': '10.26%', '7': '7.50%', '8': '7.33%', '3': '7.24%', '9': '6.72%', '4': '5.95%', '2': '5.43%'})