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Procedural justice and police legitimacy: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Central America

Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.; Puebla, David - 2024

This paper examines the impact of procedural justice and sanctions on police legitimacy in a middle-income context … using a between-subjects vignette experiment among civilians and police officers in Honduras. The scenarios involved … similar for civilians and police officers, though officers assigned greater importance to procedural justice. The study …

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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo R.; Viveiros, Igor - 2010

property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …

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Organization and information in the fight against crime: An evaluation of the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Viveiros, Igor - 2010

property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …

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The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

This article introduces a novel database that measures governments' compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...

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Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings

Celislami, Elda; Kastoryano, Stephen; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2023

Police accountability is essential to uphold the social contract. Monitoring the monitors is, however, not without … difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the … underreporting of police killings. Our results show that US counties in which law enforcement can certify the cause of death …

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Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - In: Public Choice (2021), pp. 1-28

Constitutional democracy is in decline and many would-be autocrats try to transgress constitutional constraints. Here, we introduce the concept of militant constitutionalism, which suggests a number of constitutional rules that could make constitutions more resilient to attempts to undermine...

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Assessing the Impact of Federalism on Constitutional Compliance

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Voigt, Stefan - 2024

Federalism is a constitutionalized version of multi-tier governance. Proponents of veto-player theory argue that a high number of veto players leads to a high degree of policy stability. Compared to states with a unitary structure, federal countries, in which at least one sub-central level of...

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Explaining de facto judicial independence

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2005

A high degree of de facto judicial Independence (JI) functions as a crucial precondition of governments to credibly commit to legislative decisions, such as respecting private property rights. Thus, de facto JI should improve the allocative efficiency and may therefore contribute positively to...

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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Power over prosecutors corrupts politicians: cross country evidence using a new indicator

van Aaken, Anne; Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2008

It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular...

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