Survey question from WVS 7
Category: GOVERNANCE & POLITICAL SYSTEMS — POLITICAL CULTURE & POLITICAL REGIMES
Q236: Political system: Having experts, not government, make decisions according to what they think is best for the country
Question: I'm going to describe various types of political systems. For each one, would you say it is a very good, fairly good, fairly bad, or very bad way of governing this country: 'Having experts, not government, make decisions according to what they think is best for the country'? Please indicate, with '1' being 'very good' and '4' being 'very bad'. Provide a number only.
Response scale: 1 to 4
Responses by country (mean, answer distribution):
Egypt: (2.18, {'2': '53.08%', '1': '19.27%', '3': '18.50%', '4': '9.14%'})
Iran: (1.96, {'2': '37.18%', '1': '36.16%', '3': '20.96%', '4': '5.70%'})
Iraq: (2.29, {'2': '31.81%', '1': '28.62%', '3': '21.47%', '4': '18.10%'})
Jordan: (2.53, {'2': '37.56%', '3': '32.89%', '4': '16.59%', '1': '12.96%'})
Lebanon: (2.23, {'2': '38.90%', '1': '26.10%', '3': '21.10%', '4': '13.90%'})
Libya: (2.31, {'2': '33.45%', '3': '27.38%', '1': '24.87%', '4': '14.30%'})
Morocco: (2.24, {'2': '31.58%', '1': '30.33%', '3': '22.00%', '4': '16.08%'})
Turkey: (2.45, {'2': '38.32%', '3': '31.98%', '1': '15.52%', '4': '14.17%'})
Tunisia: (2.66, {'3': '30.70%', '4': '26.48%', '2': '24.68%', '1': '18.14%'})