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Worldwide Governance Indicators: Rule of Law Scores for 2007
The red line measures deviations from predicted values, which are represented by the blue line. Ignore the gap between the red and blue lines and concentrate on how closely the red line centers toward 0. The closer to 0, the less the deviation of a country's observed score on Rule of Law from its predicted score.
 
The Czech Republic and Hungary respectively deviated little (0.04 and -0.03) from their predicted scores (0.73 and -0.77). However, the positive Czech deviation pushed its observed score slightly higher to 0.77 while the negative Hungarian deviation pushed its observed score slightly lower to 0.74.
 
More than half of the Eastern European countries deviated a good deal below their predicted scores.
 

The PDF country pages display the observed Rule of Law Scores, predicted scores, and residuals (deviations from the predictions). Each page reports country size, wealth, and party data. Download a 212 page PDF that serves for all countries.