I checked the report. Terrible lay-out and bad English. Looks unserious. RT "forgot" to mention that there is *one* autocratic regime which is very unpopular among its subject population. Yes, that would be Russia. It only has 31 confidence points and is in fact at the very bottom of the list!
The rest of the survey looks weird, with a lot of autocracies and poor Third World nations in the top, and mostly democracies at the bottom. What Edelman really measures is thus unclear.
How do you get objective responses from people living in authoritarian regimes? And why is Kenya so high on the list? How likely is it that the Kenyan government is more popular than, say, the German one? Did they only survey supporters of the governing party in some lush neighborhood with colonial-style buildings?
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