CORRUPTION Syndromes of Corruption

Table 4.1: Statistical indicators for ‘‘Influence Market’’ countries
Indicator (units/range) and source Germany Japan United States
98-Nation
median*
Polity Score 1992 (Hi ¼ more dem./0 thru 10) P 10 10 10 7.0
Polity Score 2001 P 10 10 10 7.0
Institutional/Social Capacity 2002 (0 thru 100) WEF 75.6 75.1 74.2 44.7
Property Rights 2002 (Low ¼ secure/1 thru 5) HF 1.0 2.0 1.0 3.0
Econ Freedom 1990 (hi ¼ more free/0 thru 10) FI 8.08 8.14 8.76 5.15
Econ Freedom 2001 FI 7.30 7.10 8.30 6.45
TI CPI, 2003 (0–10/inverted) TI 2.3 3.0 2.5 6.3*
UNDP Human Dev Score 2001 (0–1.00) HDR 2003 .921 .932 .937 .75
GDP per capita, 2001 WB $25,350 $25,130 $34,320 $5,940
Corruption Control 2002 ( 1.89 thru 2.39) KKZ 1.82 1.20 1.77 .22
Gov’t Effectiveness 2002 ( 1.64 thru 2.26) KKZ 1.76 1.07 1.70 .10
Government Intervention 2001 (1 thru 5) HF 2.0 1.5 2.0 3.0
Government Regulation 2001 (1 thru 5) HF 3.0 3.0 2.0 3.0
Regulatory Quality 2002 ( 2.31 thru 1.93) KKZ 1.59 .97 1.51 .06
Voice/Accountability 2002 ( 2.12 thru 1.72) KKZ 1.51 .99 1.32 .05
*Medians for the 98 countries classified in statistical clusters (ch. 3); for TI CPI 2003, median is for the 89 countries included in the CPI and in
clusters. Unless otherwise indicated, high scores indicate high levels of an attribute.
Sources:
FI ¼ Fraser Institute http://www.freetheworld.com/
HDR ¼ UNDP Human Development Report 2003 http://www.undp.org/
HF ¼ Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom reports http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/
KKZ ¼ Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobatón, ‘‘Governance Matters III’’ dataset, 2002
http://info.worldbank.org/governance/kkz2002/tables.asp
P ¼ Polity IV dataset, 2002 update http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/polreg.htm
TI ¼ Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Indexes for 2001 and 2003 http://www.transparency.org/
WB ¼ World Bank Data Query online data source (GDP and population used to calculate GDP per capita)
http://www.worldbank.org/data/dataquery.html
WEF ¼ World Economic Forum, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and CIESIN (Columbia University), 2002 Environmental
Sustainability Index http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/