The role of good management practices in organizations has recently been emphasized. Do the same principles also apply in government organizations, even the most bureaucratic and hierarchical of them? And can skilled, motivated managers identify how to improve these practices, or is there a role...

There is a long history of police in India, police always being an important instrument to maintain the law and order in society. Progress and development of any state requires the peace and maintenance of law and order. Sustainability of peace, in a society, can’t be imagined without a...

Naxalite violence has imposed economic costs on India, particularly on the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected states through various direct and indirect consequences such as destruction of infrastructure, diversion of public funds to security, restricting trade, disincentivizing private...

Heightened police repression is an important feature of urban life for poor migrants in the developing world. Yet little is known about how police repression shapes patterns of cooperation and conflict within these proliferating urban communities. I address this question by combining 5 months of...

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on gender-based violence in India. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated with a 20 percent increase in gender-based violence...

Job burnout can negatively impact individual officers, the organization that employs the burned out officers, citizens with whom these officers directly interact, and the community more broadly. The vast majority of the empirical research on burnout has been based on Western police officers. The...

Successful police organizations rely on involved, satisfied, and committed workers. The concepts of job involvement (i.e., connection with the job), job satisfaction (i.e., affective feeling toward the job), and organizational commitment (i.e., bond with the employing organization) have been...

Using a novel data set on CCTV cameras in Chandigarh, India, we test whether police officers' effort changes in response to the presence of traffic cameras. Although the cameras are useful in sanctioning drivers, they can also capture the passive (shirking) or active (rent-seeking) corruption of...