Citizens’ illegal behaviour as a response to unsatisfactory street-level encounters: the causal relationship between procedural justice and vigilantism
通过实验研究程序公正和服务可得性如何影响公民采取私刑(一种非法行为)的倾向,发现街头遭遇不仅影响政策结果,还影响公民在遭遇之间的行为。
How do procedural justice and service availability on the street-level affect citizens’ tendencies to act as vigilantes? Vigilantism is an illegal behaviour, and an undesirable phenomenon that could pose challenges to public management and have substantial consequences for these agencies. Using an experimental between-subjects design, we investigated the causal effect between procedural justice and service availability (rationing) on the street-level on citizens’ vigilantism. We explored our data using Structural Equation Modelling. Our findings strengthen the importance of street-level encounters, due to their influence not only on policy outcomes during such encounters, but also on what happens in between them.