The Good Country Index, Cognitive Ability and Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7728290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heiner Rindermann (0000-0002-5137-8922, Chemnitz University of Technology), Noah Carl (0000-0002-4442-9939, Independent researcher Cambridge UK) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-68 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-1322 • E-ISSN: 1569-1330 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15691330-12341521 |
| OpenAlex | W3013490245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
The Good Country Index ( GCI ) measures countries’ contributions to global prosperity in domains such as peace, climate and health. It is known that political institutions and wealth can enhance a country’s ability to be ‘good’. However, past research has shown that the cognitive ability of a society – and of its intellectual classes in particular – as well as education and background factors such as culture and evolutionary history, may be particularly important for socio-economic development. Using correlations, cross-sectional path analyses and longitudinal path analyses, we examined the GCI ’s relationships with the following variables: average cognitive ability, cognitive level of intellectual classes, evolutionary history, culture (indicated by religion), consanguinity, education, politics (rule of law, freedom, democracy) and wealth ( GDP per capita). There was considerable overlap between measures of politics and the GCI (e.g., freedom; empirically r = .76 to .84). The most important variable for explaining international differences in the GCI was the cognitive level of intellectual classes (around r = .72), followed by indicators of culture ( r = .64 to .69). Benefits and limitations of the intellectual class approach are discussed
Cognition · Democracy · Development economics · Economic freedom · Economic growth · Economics · Index (typography · Per capita · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Law · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |