Over at marginalrevolution, Tyler Cowen has posted and interesting blog on corruption in state government. The Corporate Crime Reporter has studied the prevalence of corruption in state officials and made an index based on the number of public corruption convictions in each state per 100,000 residents. The study covers a ten-year period from 1993 to 2002. I guess that is good news for North Carolina since our most recent spate of public corruption didn?t really hit until 2003.
The other good news, as it were, is that the Tar Heel State did not rank among the top-ten most corrupt states. Mississippi has the inglorious distinction of winning the prize for most corrupt. More information available here.
