"Political parties fared worse in the United States, where the 1,000 respondents surveyed gave them a corruption score of 4.1 out of 5". That seems surprising

"Political parties fared worse in the United States, where the 1,000 respondents surveyed gave them a corruption score of 4.1 out of 5". That seems surprising to me considering there is little 'apparent' corruption exposed to common man in the US versus most 3rd world countries.