Replication Data for: Ethnicity & Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation & Expectations of Police Bias

Replication data and code for Lyon and Malik, \"Ethnicity & Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation & Expectations of Police Bias.\" Paper abstract: \"City residents in the global south commonly encounter the police. Yet, outside of established democracies, we know little about how ethnicity shapes everyday policing in diverse urban contexts. Existing approaches generate competing expectations, with some arguing that officers are more rather than less discriminatory towards coethnics. We test these theories through a survey experiment conducted in Karachi, Pakistan – one of the world’s largest megacities. We find that civilians are only marginally less likely to expect procedural justice from non-coethnic officers, even in a context where ethnicity is highly salient. However, suggestive evidence indicates that this small effect is significantly magnified for respondents who perceive their group to be underrepresented in the police. Descriptive representation is therefore a powerful moderator of the relationship between ethnicity and expectations of police bias. These results have implications for the development of effective and legitimate police institutions in weakly institutionalized contexts.\"

里昂与马利克的研究《全球南方地区族裔与警务：描述性代表与警察偏见预期》的复现数据与代码。论文摘要：全球南方地区的城市居民日常常会接触警务活动。然而在成熟民主政体之外的区域，我们对族裔如何影响多元城市语境下的日常警务运作仍知之甚少。既有研究范式提出了相互对立的预期：部分学者认为警务人员对同族群对象的歧视程度反而更高。我们借助在全球特大城市之一巴基斯坦卡拉奇开展的调查实验对上述理论进行检验。研究发现，即便在族裔凸显性极强的语境中，平民对不同族群警务人员的程序正义预期仅略微更低。但提示性证据显示，对于认为自身族群在警务队伍中代表性不足的受访者而言，这一微弱效应会被显著放大。因此，描述性代表是族裔与警察偏见预期之间关系的重要调节因素。上述结论对于制度薄弱语境下高效且合法的警务机构建设具有借鉴意义。