Left and Right in Global Politics

Table 2.6.

Scores for relationships between left–right self-placement and attitudes

about social justice, competition, and

government intervention, in seventy-six countries, 1999–2001Western Europe

Anglo-SaxonDemocracies

Former SovietSphere of Influence Latin America

Asia-Pacific

Middle East andAfrica

Austria

0.66 Australia

1

Albania

1

Argentina 0

Bangladesh 1

Algeria

1

Belgium

0.66 Canada

0.66 Armenia

0.66 Brazil

0

India

0.66 Iran

0

Denmark

1

Ireland

0

Azerbaijan 0.33 Chile

0.33 Indonesia

0.5

Israel

0

Finland

1

New Zealand

1

Belarus

0.66

Colombia 0.5

Japan

0.66 Jordan

0

France

1

United Kingdom 1

Bosnia-H.

0.33 Dominican R. 0.33 Korea

0

Morocco

0

Germany

1

United States

1

Bulgaria

1

El Salvador 0

Pakistan

0

Nigeria

0.5

Greece

0.5

Croatia

0.33 Mexico

0

Philippines

0.66 S. Africa 0.33

Iceland

1

Czech R. 1

Peru

0.33 Taiwan

0

Tanzania 0.33

Italy

1

Estonia

0.66 Puerto Rico 0

Vietnam

1

Uganda

0

Luxembourg 1

Georgia 0.33 Uruguay

1

Zimbabwe 0.33

Malta

0.66

Hungary 0

Venezuela 0

Netherlands 1

Kazakstan 1

Norway

1

Latvia

1

Portugal

0

Lithuania 0.66

Sweden

1

Macedonia 0.66

Switzerland 1

Moldova 0.66