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Comment by RajT88

1 day ago

There's a lot of these lists, but it's interesting the differences in who tops the list:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/least-cor...

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ethbr1  20 hours ago

There's more than one type of government that can resist corruption, since much that drives corruption is extra-governmental (populace education level, media environment, trust in institutions, wealth equality, etc).

So it's unsurprising there are different optimal anti-corruption government types for different combinations of those qualities.

  • the_gastropod  6 hours ago

    Yes. But, I don’t think a single one of those “least corrupt” top contenders could be described as:

    > The solution is really to keep the scope of government small so that any corruption isn't detrimental to the populace, and they can handle it in the next election.

    Which was kind of my point. In reality, the least corruptible types of governments tend to be ones libertarian-skewing Americans would crassly describe as socialist.