If you look at nations around the world, there is no consistent correlation between the powers of a central government and its state of corruption. For example the Afghan government is very weak, yet is still very corrupt.
I take the original comment to mean : if you limit the size of the government, you limit the ability for people to abuse it's power for their own purposes. That's not the same as corruption. A government can still be powerful, but limited in the spheres in which it has power.
>If you look at nations around the world, there is no consistent correlation between the powers of a central government and its state of corruption. For example the Afghan government is very weak, yet is still very corrupt.
I would expect, without looking at data, that the relationship is the reverse: More corrupt governments are weaker. This data seems to bear it out:
