Variable: Access to Information and Openness sub-index
QoG Code: (aii_aio)
Description:
Access to Information and Openness. This sub-index from 0 to 100 is composed of:
- In law, corruption is criminalized as a specific offense.
- In law, there is an independent body/bodies mandated to receive and investigate cases of alleged public sector corruption.
- In practice, allegations of corruption against senior level politicians and/or civil servants of any level are investigated by an independent body.
- In practice, the body/bodies that investigate/s allegations of public sector corruption is/are effective.
- In practice, appointments to the body/bodies that investigate/s allegations of public sector corruption support/s the independence of the body.
- In law, the head of state and government can be investigated and prosecuted while in office if evidence suggests they committed a crime.
- In practice, heads of state and government are investigated and prosecuted while in office if evidence suggests they committed a crime.
- In law, there is a mechanism for citizens to report police misconduct or abuse of force.
- In practice, the mechanism for citizens to report police misconduct or abuse of force is effective.
Type of variable: Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-12-04
Last updated by source: 2023-07-04
Categories:
Judicial
Quality of Government
Find this variable in:
Standard Cross-section - 2024
Standard Time-series - 2024
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Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset |
No. Countries |
Standard cross-section: |
54 |
Standard time-series: |
54 |
This variable has information for these countries:
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- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo, Democratic Republic
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini (former Swaziland)
- Ethiopia (1993-)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan (2012-)
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe