approval rating
Leadership popularity measure
An approval rating is a measure of public support for a political figure, institution, or policy, typically expressed as a percentage.
Pollsters ask respondents whether they approve or disapprove of how someone is handling their job: The president's approval rating dropped to 42%.
The term appears almost exclusively in political contexts, tracking how leaders are perceived over time.
- popularityMass public favor
- pollsOpinion surveys or voting sites
- public opinion pollSystematic sampling of views
- favorabilityPositive perception rating
- percentageProportion out of hundred
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- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- public opinionpublic opinion, public sentiment, polls, poll, consensus
- ratingsone star, five stars, two stars, three stars, four stars
- surveyspoll, polls, survey, surveys, questionnaire
- approvalagree, accept, thumbs-up, praise, permission
- metricsKPI, metric, KPIs, metrics, statistics
approval ratingrejection rate
Frequency of declined submissions
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