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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581739
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807406
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276725
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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?
Weber Abramo, Claudio - 2007
Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295227
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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?
Weber Abramo, Claudio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-3, pp. 1-56
Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the general population. In contrast, perceptions about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295301
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Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions
Schneider, Friedrich; Bühn, Andreas - 2013
This paper presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists. Because of its flexibility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328744
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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2013
We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329176
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How does corruption affect public debt? An empirical analysis
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by government expenditure, the shadow economy and military...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368254
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Estimating the size of the shadow economy: Methods, problems and open questions
Schneider, Friedrich; Buehn, Andreas - 2013
This paper presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists. Because of its flexibility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368263
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Forms of government decentralization and institutional quality: Evidence from a large sample of nations
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2016
This paper studies the effects of various forms of government decentralization on institutional quality across countries. Using corruption and the shadow economy to proxy for institutional quality, as well as three forms of government decentralization (i.e., virtual, physical, and fiscal), the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688621