Table 2.8. Evaluations of regime performance
	Global regions
Country	Western	Eastern	Asia	Africa	North &	South	Oceania
	Europe	Europe			Central	America
					America
Azerbaijan		77
Norway	70
South Africa				54
Switzerland	46
Taiwan			42
Philippines			41
Chile						38
Croatia		38
Puerto Rico					34
Sweden	33
Peru						32
Brazil						28
Yugoslavia		26
USA					25
Turkey		25
Finland	23
Australia							23
Estonia		22
Mexico					22
West Germany	22
Slovenia		21
Uruguay						21
Georgia		21
Spain	18
Armenia		17
Lithuania		17
Argentina						16
Latvia		16
East Germany		15
Moldova		12
Japan			12
Nigeria				11
Ukraine		10
Belarus		8
Venezuela						6
Dominican Rep.					6
Russia		4
MEAN	35	20	38	32	22	23	23
Note Performance of the regime: the variables 'performance of the system for governing' (recoded 1-3 = 1; 4-5 =2; 6-7 = 3; 8-10 = 4), 'performance of people in national office (1-4), 'confidence in parliament (1 -4), and 'confidence in government (1-4) are added to form a 13-point scale: 1 = low performance to 13 = high performance.  The proportion of citizens with scale values 8-13 are displayed in the table.
Source: World Values Surveys, 1994/7.
Source: Hans-Dieter Klingemann.  1999.  "Mapping Political Support in the 1990s: A Global Analysis."  Pp. 31-56 in Pippa Norris, ed., Critical Citizens. Global Support for Democratic Governance.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.