Encouraging Cooperation with the State -- A Field Experiment on Household Connections to the Police

• In Event: Policing in the Developing World

Brief Overview

We conduct an experiment in South Africa, in which we randomly equip households with a direct connection to police that facilitates a swift police response to examine whether mob justice/extra-judicial violence is a result of weak state capacity.

Authors

• Anna Wilke, Columbia University in the City of New York

• Jasper Jack Cooper, University of California San Diego