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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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The Moral Consequences of the Arendtian Space of Freedom
Constellations, EarlyView.
Seung‐Hwan Hong
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Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Appellate courts with discretionary dockets have multiple ways to review lower courts. We develop a formal model that evaluates the trade‐offs between “full review”—which features full briefing, oral arguments, and signed opinions—versus “quick review,” where a higher court can summarily reverse a lower court. We show that having the option of
Alexander V. Hirsch +2 more
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Sobre dos variantes de desobediencia civil transnacional
DaimonResumen: El artículo ofrece la articulación de dos variantes de desobediencia civil transnacio- nal. Dicha distinción corre en línea paralela a la distinción entre modelos liberales y críticos de desobediencia civil, delineados principalmente ...
José Enrique Sotomayor Trelles
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Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Building a strong and effective state requires revenue. Yet, in many low‐income countries, citizens do not make formal payments to the state or forego engaging with the state altogether due to vulnerability to opportunistic demands by state agents. We study two randomized interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, designed to
Soeren J. Henn +4 more
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how politicians use the assignment of officials to geographical posts—a personnel system found in many countries—as a system of incentives to control, and possibly corrupt, bureaucratic behavior. The argument is developed with a matching model and tested with a nationwide survey of Indian officials who administer land ...
Anustubh Agnihotri +2 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the formation and operation of Myanmar's Interim Ethics Review Board (IERB), which was established in November 2023 by displaced academics involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement against the 2021 military coup. Operating within a highly repressive, conflict‐ridden environment, the IERB exemplifies a locally‐led and ...
Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw +3 more
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Authoritarian State, civil disobedience and disputatory Democracy
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 The most resent political dinamism in some Latin American countries shows the overcoming of authoritarian forms of Statement, not only by the kind of politics applied but by the restrictions imposed in civil sector of society that have different ...
Oscar Mejía Quintana
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