Institutions

Resilient Chile Well-Poised to Recover After Quake

Chileans more confident in government, military than Haitians

March 5, 2010
Chile's economic strength and institutional stability may give its residents an advantage in recovering from last Saturday's major earthquake. Chileans express more confidence in national government than residents of Latin America and the Caribbean on average and far more confidence than Haitians.More ...

Fewer Afghans See Corruption Increasing in Their Country

Most still perceive corruption as widespread in government, business

February 24, 2010
Gallup surveys document some positive momentum in Afghans' views about the level of corruption in their country following the country's election in August 2009. The number of Afghans saying corruption levels were higher than they were five years ago continued to decline, dropping below 50% for the first time.More ...

Quake Sets Back Government Already Weak in Haitians’ Eyes

Confidence in Haiti’s public institutions among the region’s lowest

February 5, 2010
Fewer than one in four Haitians in December 2008 were confident in the country’s national government (24%), judiciary (20%), or elections (19%). That lack of confidence may promote social unrest; one-third of Haitians (33%) said they had been assaulted or mugged in the past year.More ...

More Germans Perceive Improving Economic Conditions

Despite gains, a majority still said economy getting worse

February 1, 2010
More than one-third of Germans surveyed in the fall of 2009 perceived their economy to be getting better -- a 19-percentage point increase from earlier in the year. Fifty-eight percent still said the economy is getting worse.More ...

The State of the Union Speech and Public Opinion

Gallup reviews public opinion on 22 issues raised in State of the Union

January 29, 2010
Gallup looks at how a number of key points and policy proposals that President Barack Obama made in his State of the Union address Wednesday night relate to the views of the American people.More ...

Postwar Optimism Soars in Sri Lanka

Economic optimism swells in tandem with confidence in government

December 3, 2009
Growth in Sri Lanka’s economy is well below where it was last year -- down from 6% in 2008 to a projected 3.5% for 2009 -- but economic optimism and confidence in national institutions is rising. Likely driving this positivity is Sri Lankans’ expectation that things will improve now that the war is over.More ...

U.S. Leadership Gets Approval Boost in Parts of Europe

Approval increased by a median of 40 percentage points in 7 of 8 countries surveyed

October 19, 2009
Approval of U.S. leadership increased significantly in seven of eight European countries polled before and after the new U.S. leadership took office in early 2009.More ...

Many Americans Remain Distrusting of News Media

Less than half (45%) have great deal/fair amount of confidence; majority perceive bias

October 1, 2009
Less than half of Americans (45%) say they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly -- on par with last year’s record-low 43%. As in previous years, most perceive bias: 45% say the media are too liberal and 15% say they are too conservative.More ...

Many in Asia Wait to Rate New U.S. Administration

Approval down in three of eight countries polled

September 22, 2009
Across eight Asian countries Gallup surveyed, approval of U.S. leadership is down slightly in 2009 compared with 2008, in large part attributable to an increase in the percentage who did not have an opinion. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, approval of U.S. leadership remains steady.More ...

Yemenis’ Attitudes Toward Gov’t Split North/South

Residents in the South less confident in institutions, job creation

September 15, 2009
Nearly 20 years after Yemen’s unification, Gallup finds distinct differences in attitudes along North-South lines. Yemenis in the South are less likely than those in the North to express faith in nearly every institution asked about and to be satisfied with efforts to deal with the poor and create quality jobs.More ...
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