Police Patrol versus Self-Policing

John Brehm and Emerson M. S. Niou

Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1997, vol. 9, issue 1, 107-130

Abstract: The policing systems used in the former Soviet Union and Communist China are prototypes of control systems found in many political systems. The system in the former Soviet Union is a variant on the `police patrol', while the system in Communist China is a self-policing system calling upon citizens to report not only their own behavior, but the behavior of others. Our paper applies both game-theoretic and learning models to explore the relative effectiveness of the two systems.

Keywords: compliance; control; policing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1177/0951692897009001010

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