Table 6.4
Political Institutions and the Qualities of Policies| Country by Policy Index level | Congress Capabilities Index |
Judicial independence |
Party system institutionalization |
Party system nationalizationa |
Programmatic parties |
Development of civil service |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VERY HIGH |
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| Chile | High |
4.60 |
65 |
0.90 |
8.00 |
0.59 |
|
HIGH
|
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| Brazil | High |
3.90 |
59 |
0.64 |
2.00 |
0.68 |
|
| Colombia | High |
3.10 |
60 |
0.00 |
0.47 |
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| Costa Rica | Medium |
3.80 |
61 |
0.85 |
1.00 |
0.49 |
|
| El Salvador | Medium |
2.90 |
66 |
0.83 |
7.00 |
0.11 |
|
| Mexico | Medium |
3.30 |
67 |
0.78 |
2.00 |
0.40 |
|
| Uruguay | High |
4.80 |
76 |
0.89 |
7.00 |
0.48 |
|
MEDIUM
|
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| Bolivia | Medium |
1.70 |
56 |
0.71 |
0.00 |
0.24 |
|
| Dominican Republic | Low
| 3.60 |
74 |
0.84 |
0.00 |
0.28 |
|
| Honduras | Low |
1.90 |
68 |
0.91 |
2.00 |
0.16 |
|
| Peru | Low |
1.90 |
53 |
0.50 |
0.00 |
0.16 |
|
LOW
|
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| Argentina | Low |
1.80 |
62 |
0.59 |
2.00 |
0.50 |
|
| Ecuador | Medium |
1.90 |
53 |
0.74 |
1.00 |
0.18 |
|
| Guatemala | Low |
2.20 |
48 |
0.76 |
0.00 |
0.21 |
|
| Nicaragua | Medium |
1.60 |
70 |
0.88 |
8.00 |
0.19 |
|
| Panama | Medium |
2.20 |
67 |
0.78 |
0.00 |
0.08 |
|
| Paraguay | Medium |
1.40 |
64 |
0.73 |
1.00 |
0.16 |
|
| Venezuela | Medium |
1.20 |
55 |
0.61 |
0.00 |
0.37 |
|
a Adequate data for party system nationalization are not available for Colombia for 2002. For the case of Ecuador, party system nationalization data correspond to 1998. Note: Cuntries are classified first according to their policy index values ("very high", "high", "medium" and "low"), and then alphabetically within these groupings. The values for each country on each variable are shaded such that dark blue represents "very high" or "high" values, light blue represents "medium" values and white (no shading) represents "low" values. Sources: Stein and Tommasi (2005); Jones (2005); Zuvanic and Iacoviello (2005) and World Economic Forum (2004). |
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