For the equations below, variables significant at p < .10 are underlined, variables significant at p < .05 are in bold, variables significant at p < .001 or better are in italics, and insignificant variables are in regular typeface.

CORRUPTION EQUATION: The equation also includes the average number of school years citizens have attained (Barro and Lee 1994) and the 1998 Freedom House democratization score.

JUDICIAL EFFICIENCY EQUATION: Other variables are the average number of school years and the summary Freedom House democratization index.

CONFIDENCE IN LEGAL SYSTEM EQUATION: A two-stage least squares estimation with trust also endogenous. The equation for trust also includes the Gini index of inequality and the percentage of a country's population that is Protestant (see below for an explication of the logic of these predictors). The other predictors in the model for confidence in the legal system are the 1988 Freedom House measure of civil liberties (Gastil 1991) and assassinations in a country per million people per year from 1970–85 (Sachs and Warner 1997). So countries with higher interpersonal trust, greater civil liberties, and fewer assassinations have more confidence in the law. The impact of civil liberties is the strongest, though the t-ratios for civil liberties and trust are about equal.

FAIRNESS IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM EQUATION: A two-stage least squares estimation with trust endogenous. The equation for trust also includes the Gini index of inequality and percent Protestant. The equation for fairness of the justice system includes trust, how extensive is the system of property rights (from LaPorta et al. 1997), and assassinations in a country per million people per year from 1970–85 (Sachs and Warner 1997).