Cuba, Vietnam, Laos. At the local and province level in China.
West Africa, assuming the provisional government actually holds elections
Modhat:
Unironically don't assume people's genders.
In China, “approval ratings” get measured from the perspective of “is my life improving?” rather than “would my life be improving more under someone else?”
Wow, an actual useful metric for whether the government is responsive to the populations needs.
Basically, what I’m saying is that the US would have a higher effective approval rating in the Chinese context than it does today, because many American lives ARE improving under the American government.
Except for life expectancy reductions, child malnutrition, literacy rate reductions, etc
South Korea was overtly a puppet dictatorship until the mid 80s, now their military is still subordinate to US pacific command.