Transparency International
Transparency is a concept that is used frequently to describe a set of good qualities about governments and regimes. Transparency International does a yearly survey related to perceived corruption around the world. The results of their 2012 survey have just been released. There are some good teaching tools to be had.As a preview, here are the rankings, out of 176 countries, for the AP6. Lower rankings indicate less corrupt systems.
17. UK
80. China
105. Mexico
133. Russia
133. Iran
139. Nigeria
Why is the lack of transparency considered a negative characteristic of a government or a regime? Is transparency a universally good thing in a government or a regime? Can your students find any correlations between a country's CPI ranking and other regime or government characteristics?
Corruption Perceptions Index 2012
There is a ranking chart of the 176 countries.
There's a wonderful world map illustrating the rankings. And if you hold your cursor over a country on the interactive map, that country's ranking and score appear.
And there's an innovative circle chart presenting the rankings in another way.
Part of TI's map
And there's a two-minute video explaining Transparency International's efforts to publicize their work.
Teaching Comparative blog entries are indexed.
The First Edition of What You Need to Know: Teaching Tools is now available from the publisher
The Fourth Edition of What You Need to Know is available from the publisher (where shipping is always FREE).
Labels: concepts, rule of law, transparency
posted by Ken Wedding @ 9:26 AM
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Nigeria: Corruption - Jonathan's Govt Not to Blame for Transparency International Rating - Presidency
The Presidency said yesterday that the current rating of the Transparency International was not the fault of the present administration but due to decades of endemic corruption in our polity.
Faulting claim by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, which placed the blame for rating of Nigeria as the 35th most corrupt nation, at the door step of the President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe said such claim "is preposterous and lacking in credibility, and can only be best described as pure political mischief.
He said, "Lai Mohammed knows they, in the Action Congress, live in glass houses and should not throw stones because his party is home to some of the most notoriously corrupt Nigerians ever. He should not throw stones just to score cheap political points. His party has no moral leg it can stand to pontificate about corruption…
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