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A 1-300? list of Rankings based on performance in certain criteria for use of the world populace as a reference point when determining change of thier own country's leadership.
example: "Bush has fallen to 186?, Holy smokes!, Sadam Hussien himself was 223 wasn't he?"
I have not come up with a complete
list of criteria for the rankings, but it could include such things as:
-Human Rights, Mean Economic Well Being of Populace, UN compliance, National Aggression Index, Foriegn Aid, and Environmental Issues.
World Leaders
http://www.google.c...Leaders&btnG=Search
Unranked [dpsyplc, Oct 05 2004]
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With numerous elections, the list would never be stable. Where does a new president enter the list? |
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Perhaps a new leader would be listed as NR until they actually did something or enough time had elapsed of them not doing something to quantify their efforts. |
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How the heck do you calculate the National Aggression Index? |
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Due differences in cultural values around the world I am dubious that the index would have much value as a global metric. |
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It would certainly tell who was popular. |
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I think it should be the countries rated
rather than the leaders, to deal with the
changing faces of govt. |
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There could be different events, so the
US could win events like "most english
speakers" and australia could get
"longest coastline" and so on. |
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Actually, I believe India would win "Most English speakers" hands down. |
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How would the US react to shock results like most likely to vote against green issues for example? |
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Zimmy suspect this would be best as a system used every year of the leaders tenure. would allow a new leader a year to distance themselves from bad decisions or reinforce their good standing. |
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Good concept, generally. Although some bugs to work out. How to collect data? I don't think random sampling by pollsters would work in oppressed regimes. People would be too skeptical of implications to truthfully be critical. (e.g., Saddam Hussien was recently reelected in a landslide. Did his people really love him that much?) |
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That Saddam Hussien election could have been as free and fair as let me think Florida?? |
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Granted, [engineer1], neither election was free and fair, but the results from Florida differ from Iraq. Saddam Hussien was elected by a landslide. George Dubya was elected by a mere chadslide. |
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Why not just continue with the current system. The Americans say they are number one in everything and the rest of us just nod and continue not to care! |
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