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Local Order, Policing, and Bribes

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Tellez, JF; Wibbels, E; Krishna, A
Published in: World Politics
January 1, 2020

Day-to-day policing represents a fundamental interface between citizens and states. Yet even in the most capable states, local policing varies enormously from one community to the next. The authors seek to understand this variation and in doing so make three contributions: First, they conceptualize communities and individuals as networks more or less capable of demanding high-quality policing. Second, they present original survey data and semistructured interviews on local policing from over one hundred sixty slums, eight thousand households, and one hundred seventy informal neighborhood leaders in India that contribute to the nascent empirical work on comparative policing and order. Third, they find evidence that well-connected individuals and densely connected neighborhoods express greater confidence in and satisfaction with local policing. Critically, these differences do not appear to be a function of a lower propensity for local conflict but rather of an increased capacity to leverage neighborhood leaders to mediate relations with the police. The combination of analytics and empirics in this article provides insight into the conditions under which individuals and communities experience the police as expropriators of rents or neutral providers of order.

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World Politics

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EISSN

1086-3338

ISSN

0043-8871

Publication Date

January 1, 2020

Volume

72

Issue

3

Start / End Page

377 / 410

Related Subject Headings

  • Political Science & Public Administration
  • 4408 Political science
  • 4407 Policy and administration
  • 1606 Political Science
  • 1605 Policy and Administration
 

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Tellez, J. F., Wibbels, E., & Krishna, A. (2020). Local Order, Policing, and Bribes. World Politics, 72(3), 377–410. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887120000064
Tellez, J. F., E. Wibbels, and A. Krishna. “Local Order, Policing, and Bribes.” World Politics 72, no. 3 (January 1, 2020): 377–410. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887120000064.
Tellez JF, Wibbels E, Krishna A. Local Order, Policing, and Bribes. World Politics. 2020 Jan 1;72(3):377–410.
Tellez, J. F., et al. “Local Order, Policing, and Bribes.” World Politics, vol. 72, no. 3, Jan. 2020, pp. 377–410. Scopus, doi:10.1017/S0043887120000064.
Tellez JF, Wibbels E, Krishna A. Local Order, Policing, and Bribes. World Politics. 2020 Jan 1;72(3):377–410.
Journal cover image

Published In

World Politics

DOI

EISSN

1086-3338

ISSN

0043-8871

Publication Date

January 1, 2020

Volume

72

Issue

3

Start / End Page

377 / 410

Related Subject Headings

  • Political Science & Public Administration
  • 4408 Political science
  • 4407 Policy and administration
  • 1606 Political Science
  • 1605 Policy and Administration