>>>However I can't think of a western country where we get so many political scandals and mismanagement as out of the US. It exceeds a country like italy several times.
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>>But don't we have to measure this per capita? In all seriousness, the US has a lot more people than most western countries, as well as a lot more individual governments (federal, state, county and municipal). Isn't it likely we'd have more corruption?
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>It should be measured by size of its government. Per capita is irrelevant.
>The size of the government is not linear to the number of citizens.

Okay, I'll buy that. So does the US have more political corruption per government official than other western countries?

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