Improving police integrity in Uganda: Impact assessment of the police accountability and reform project

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dc.contributor.authorWagner, Natascha
dc.contributor.authorHout, Wil
dc.contributor.authorNamara, Rose
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-15T10:16:29Z
dc.date.available2021-12-15T10:16:29Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractUganda and in particular the Ugandan police are perceived as highly corrupt. To address the integrity of police officers, an intervention called the Police Accountability and Reform Project (PARP) was implemented in selected police districts between 2010 and early 2013. This paper studies the impact of PARP for a sample of 600 police officers who were interviewed about police integrity by means of 12 hypothetical vignette cases depicting context-specific, undesirable behavior of varying degrees of severity. The assessments of the cases by the police officers are analyzed using propensity score matching, inverse probability weighting, and seemingly unrelated regression techniques. We show that the self-selection of police officers into the program is unlikely to drive the results. The results suggest that officers participating in PARP activities (1) judge the presented cases of misconduct more severely, (2) are more inclined to report misconduct, and (3) also expect their colleagues to judge misbehavior at the police level more critically although the latter two coefficient estimates are smaller in size.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWagner, N., Hout, W., & Namara, R. (2020). Improving police integrity in Uganda: Impact assessment of the police accountability and reform project. Review of Development Economics, 24(1), 62-83.DOI: 10.1111/rode.12643en_US
dc.identifier.other10.1111/rode.12643
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/572
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherReview of Development Economicsen_US
dc.subjectpolice integrityen_US
dc.subjectpolice accountabilityen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.titleImproving police integrity in Uganda: Impact assessment of the police accountability and reform projecten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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