Despite the last decade’s rise in populism, particularly in Europe and Northern America, the latest results from the World Value Survey Wave 7 point in a new direction.
The wave of populism which seemed to sweep/flood through Europe and North America in particular over the last decade appears to be ebbing out, with the last Wave of the World Value Survey (7th Wave) showing growing scepticism of strong leadership and increasing advocacy for expert decision-making processes, a so-called technocratic system.
XX per cent of the world’s population have stated that “having a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament and elections”, i.e. a system without checks and balances, is a ‘fairly bad’ or ‘very bad’ thing. Only xx per cent of the world’s population evaluated the statement negative when the question was first included in the second wave, in 1994/1998.
Despite the last decade’s rise in populism, particularly in Europe and Northern America, the latest results from the World Value Survey Wave 7 indicates that on a global scale, people are increasingly sceptical of so-called strong leaders, who act independently from checks and balances as well as warming up to the idea of experts making decisions on XXX.
The following is to test if ggplot works in the R markdown as intended and can be hovered over to show appropriate values.
Figure 1: Test ggplot
In addition the latests results from 2020 shows that 51 per cent of the world’s population are positive about the idea of experts, and not governments, making decisions as they see fit. This is a significant increase from the 34 per cent of respondents who were positive about the statement in the 1994/1998 study.
All in all, this indicates that populism may still ride the waves for years to come but people are warming up to the idea that experts are valuable in decision-making processes and that technocracy might just be the new recipe.
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Sorensen (2020, Aug. 11). Peace+Data: Let the Strong Leader Stay, but Let's Bring in the Experts. Retrieved from https://githubiep.github.io/posts/2020-08-11-wvs-wave-7/
BibTeX citation
@misc{sorensen2020let,
author = {Sorensen, N},
title = {Peace+Data: Let the Strong Leader Stay, but Let's Bring in the Experts},
url = {https://githubiep.github.io/posts/2020-08-11-wvs-wave-7/},
year = {2020}
}