Table 6.3 Correlations of Institutional and Political Variables with Key Features of Policies

Table 6.3

Correlations of Institutional and Political Variables with Key Features of Policies

	Stability	Adaptability	Coordination and coherence	Implementation and enforcement	Public-regardedness	Efficiency	Policy Index	No. Obs.
Congress Index	0.740***	0.570**	0.754***	0.503**	0.624***	0.614***	0.699***	18
Congress Index	0.722***	0.543**	0.752***	0.472**	0.601***	0.606***	0.679***	18
Party system institutionalization	0.388	0.150	0.315	0.104	0.041	0.287	0.250	18
Party system institutionalization	0.401*	0.164	0.321	0.120	0.054	0.295	0.263	18
Party system nationalization	0.505**	0.367	0.409	0.313	0.132	0.496**	0.420*	17
Party system nationalization	0.625***	0.493**	0.481*	0.434*	0.221	0.584**	0.533**	17
Programmatic parties	0.431*	0.478**	0.478**	0.351	0.385	0.616***	0.499**	18
Programmatic parties	0.446*	0.495**	0.486**	0.370	0.401*	0.626***	0.514**	18
Judicial independence	0.866***	0.705***	0.808***	0.722***	0.661***	0.751***	0.835***	18
Judicial independence	0.850***	0.678***	0.809***	0.693***	0.637***	0.745***	0.816***	18
Cabinet stability	0.450	0.362	0.441	0.352	0.472	0.530	0.464	10
Cabinet stability	0.442	0.350	0.440	0.339	0.466	0.525	0.456	10
Share of ministers in civil service	0.613	0.312	0.340	0.420	0.200	0.317	0.411	8
Share of ministers in civil service	0.669*	0.343	0.463	0.400	0.263	0.383	0.467	8
Civil service development	0.524**	0.562**	0.542**	0.536**	0.631***	0.452*	0.588**	18
Civil service development	0.526**	0.548**	0.611***	0.503**	0.646***	0.482**	0.599***	18
Proportionality of electoral system	-0.040	0.191	-0.210	0.036	-0.110	-0.208	-0.063	18
Proportionality of electoral system	-0.065	0.163	-0.224	0.004	-0.139	-0.226	-0.089	18
Effective number of legislative parties stability	-0.140	0.060	-0.168	0.019	-0.082	-0.261	-0.110	18
Effective number of legislative parties stability	-0.221	-0.018	-0.214	-0.070	-0.165	-0.325	-0.191	18
Partisan powers of the president	-0.028	-0.168	0.040	-0.043	0.034	0.161	0.001	18
Partisan powers of the president	0.029	-0.108	0.070	0.031	0.100	0.207	0.062	18
* Significant at 10 percent. Significant at 5 percent. * Significant at 1percent. Note: For each political variable listed on the left, the first row presents simple correlations with each of the policy variables listed at the top of the columns, and the second row presents (in italics) partialed-out correlations (controlling for the 1980 GDP per capita)Source: Stein and Tommasi (2005); Jones (2005); Martínez and Gallardo (2005b); Iacoviello and Zuvanic (2005); World Economic Forum (2004); and authors' compilation.