Transparency International - Rankings

PolitiSUCK
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http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results

9.3 Denmark
9.3 New Zealand
9.3 Singapore
9.2 Finland
9.2 Sweden
8.9 Canada
8.8 Netherands
8.7 Australia
8.7 The Swiss
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7.9 Germany (rank 15)
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7.8 Japan (rank 17)
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7.6 UK (rank 20)
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7.1 USA (rank 22)
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3.7 Cuba (rank 69)
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3.5 China (78)
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2.1 Russia (rank 154)
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1.5 Iraq (rank 175)
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1.1 Somalia (rank 178 - Last)

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These types of surveys are silly;

… ranks countries in terms of the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist
among public officials and politicians.

So this is really just a perception rating and not based off of actual recorded / documented corruption.

Not to mention they almost always ignore population data. Given that list and adjusted for population, the list changes dramatically:

Lowest perceived corruption vs. population

  1. 7.1 USA (rank 22) 307.0 mill ~ .02
  2. 7.8 Japan (rank 17) 127.7 mill ~ .06
  3. 7.9 Germany (rank 15) 82.1 mill ~ .09
  4. 7.6 UK (rank 20) 61.4 ~ .12
  5. 8.9 Canada 33.3 mill ~ .26
  6. 8.7 Australia 21.4 mill ~ .40
  7. 8.8 Netherands 16.4 mill ~ .53
  8. 9.2 Sweden 9.2 mill ~ 1.00
  9. 8.7 The Swiss 7.6 mill ~ 1.14
  10. 9.3 Denmark 5.4 mill ~ 1.72
  11. 9.2 Finland 5.3 mill ~ 1.73
  12. 9.3 Singapore 4.8 mill ~ 1.93
  13. 9.3 New Zealand 4.2 mill ~ 2.21
    Highest perceived corruption vs. population

http://www.transparency.org/content/download/55903/892623/CPI2010_long_methodology_En.pdf

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meh, Peter Eigen from Transparency International did a TED talk… that means he’s right…

don’t know how to embed TED talks.

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if a corrupt government recorded/documented their corruption, they wouldnt be much use to themselves. i think perception is really all that matters in terms of the public’s faith in their decision makers. and any lack of faith is probably either from due cause or that the corrupt officials just simply suck at covering their tracks.

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part of the issue is that the standards are international, or supposedly, and many cultures simply don’t subscribe to them and are open about their practices.

Didn’t Karzai just last week admit to taking millions of dollars in bags of US cash from the Pentagon in one hand and from Iran in the other and talked openly about it on TV?

Russia’s corruption issues are quite well documented as well… it’s not easy to hide the transfer of $100,000,000,000 billion dollar government companies to private individuals.

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chinas corruption is probably easier to hide given government control of media outlets. but it gets pretty obvious over here, like when billionaires in vancouver are buying 16 lexuses at a time with louis vutton bags of american dollars. and their kids are spending +$1000 on dinner very inconspicuously. in fact most of the rich chinese people ive met in the past 4 years whove been exceptionally flashy, when asked how they ball so hard, just say: “my parents work for the chinese government”. i guess you dont have to be too careful about who you tell over here since theres nothing anyone can do over there.