Regulatory quality during each office-holder's tenure, worldwide

42 offices, from presidents to mayors, in 40 countries, ranked against one another by how the regulatory quality changed from each office-holder's first day in office, each on its own country's figures. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Office-holder	Place	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	N Edmund Ho	Macao Chief Executive · China	20 Dec 1999 – 20 Dec 2009 from 2000	+14.9 points 2000 → 2009	+1.7 points/yr
2	Mikuláš Dzurinda	Slovakia Prime Minister	30 Oct 1998 – 4 Jul 2006	+14.7 points 1998 → 2006	+1.8 points/yr
3	John Howard	Australia Prime Minister	11 Mar 1996 – 3 Dec 2007 from 1996	+13.0 points 1996 → 2007	+1.2 points/yr
4	Algirdas Brazauskas	Lithuania Prime Minister	3 Jul 2001 – 4 Jul 2006	+12.2 points 2000 → 2006	+2.0 points/yr
5	N Tung Chee-hwa	Hong Kong Chief Executive · China	1 Jul 1997 – 12 Mar 2005	+11.6 points 1996 → 2004	+1.5 points/yr
6	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu	Romania Prime Minister	29 Dec 2004 – 22 Dec 2008	+9.6 points 2004 → 2008	+2.4 points/yr
7	José María Aznar	Spain Prime Minister	4 May 1996 – 16 Apr 2004 from 1996	+8.7 points 1996 → 2003	+1.2 points/yr
8	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia President	20 Oct 2004 – 20 Oct 2014	+8.5 points 2004 → 2014	+0.9 points/yr
9	Junichiro Koizumi	Japan Prime Minister	26 Apr 2001 – 26 Sep 2006	+8.5 points 2000 → 2006	+1.4 points/yr
10	Costas Simitis	Greece Prime Minister	22 Jan 1996 – 10 Mar 2004 from 1996	+8.2 points 1996 → 2003	+1.2 points/yr

Showing 10 of 155 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators score from 0 to 100, one method for every country; yearly; each place is read from its own statistics office's series (the row's chart names it), so a change is set against the place's own first day, never against another country's level. Every row is indexed to the last month, quarter or count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it). Changes are differences in points; "per year" divides them by the years in office. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. Data as of Sep 2026.