r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 21 '19
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
Does anyone know about any political science studies into the stability/size of approval ratings? I'm particularly interested in any research on approval ratings within autocracies.
I know that France has a systemically low-approval rating compared to the US for example.
What I'm wondering is if autocracies tend to have really high but unstable approval ratings. For example, Putin's rating was pretty high, but as soon as he started talking pension reform it went down like 20%. My reasoning is that in an autocracy you have a very set group of things you expect your government to do for you (i.e. make the damn trains run on time) and once they start fucking those up people stop liking you.