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In my opinion, you should be able to measure how well a country is governed by the amount of trust the people put in their government. I think the Nordic countr
by purplelobster 14y ago
In my opinion, you should be able to measure how well a country is governed by the amount of trust the people put in their government. I think the Nordic countries would score fairly high in that, but honestly, there are huge problems in those countries as well. Every country is run by imperfect and irrational people.
- mjn 14y agoThe corruption perceptions index, which is one of the factors the Economist ranking takes into account, is one possible proxy for the level of trust people have in their government: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/ http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/ Trust is a more general concept than just perceived lack of corruption, but I would guess the two are closely related (though which direction the causality goes in is an interesting question).
- purplelobster 14y agoYes, also I had much trust in the Swedish justice system, but after all the Pirate Bay and Assange stuff, my trust is wavering.