Paulus, M. & Kristoufek, L.: Worldwide clustering of the corruption perception
| Author(s): | prof. PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek Ph.D., Mgr. Michal Paulus , |
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| Type: | Articles in journals with impact factor |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Number: | 0 |
| ISSN / ISBN: | 1434-6028 |
| Published in: | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 421, pp. 351-358 arXiv PDF |
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| Keywords: | clustering, corruption perception |
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| Grants: | GAČR č. P402/12/0982: Trade Flows in Times of Economic Boom and Slump: Modifying the Gravity Model for Country, Time and Product-Specific Decision-Making GDN (No. RRC15+55): Structural Effects of Corruption and Anticorruption: Trade Channel |
| Abstract: | We inspect a possible clustering structure of the corruption perception among 134 countries. Using the average linkage clustering, we uncover a well-defined hierarchy in the relationships among countries. Four main clusters are identified and they suggest that countries worldwide can be quite well separated according to their perception of corruption. Moreover, we find a strong connection between corruption levels and a stage of development inside the clusters. The ranking of countries according to their corruption perfectly copies the ranking according to the economic performance measured by the gross domestic product per capita of the member states. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first one to present an application of hierarchical and clustering methods to the specific case of corruption. |
