Abstract

What factors affect citizens’ engagement with the state? We explore this question through a study of victims’ and bystanders’ willingness to report crimes to the police, using data from survey experiments conducted in Russia and Georgia. We find that citizens’ willingness to report in both countries is strongly influenced by the nature of the crime, but not generally by instruments that the state might use to encourage greater reporting. Our results recommend scepticism about the ability of governments to easily engineer citizens’ engagement with the state.

中文翻译：

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谁举报犯罪？俄罗斯和格鲁吉亚与警察的公民交往

摘要

哪些因素影响公民参与国家？我们使用在俄罗斯和乔治亚州进行的调查实验所得的数据，通过对受害者和旁观者向警方举报犯罪的意愿的研究，探讨了这个问题。我们发现，两国公民的举报意愿在很大程度上受到犯罪性质的影响，但总体上不受国家鼓励更多举报的手段的影响。我们的结果建议人们对政府能否轻易设计公民与国家互动的能力表示怀疑。