title: National intelligence estimates and the Failed State Index.
abstract: Across 177 countries around the world, the Failed State Index, a measure of state vulnerability, was reliably negatively associated with the estimates of national intelligence. Psychometric analysis of the Failed State Index, compounded of 12 social, economic, and political indicators, suggested factorial unidimensionality of this index. The observed correspondence of higher national intelligence figures to lower state vulnerability might arise through these two macro-level variables possibly being proxies of even more pervasive historical and societal background variables that affect both.
authors.affiliation: Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, Room 03-46, A-1010 Vienna, Austria. martin.voracek@univie.ac.at
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Voracek
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D001208:Asia; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004467:Economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005060:Europe; D059066:Gross Domestic Product / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D009520:New Zealand; D009656:North America; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*