Law Enforcement Academy Performance Report, FY 2004

Agency Performance Report

Las Puertas de la noche, roman policier D'Amir Valle: traduction et commentaire

Traduction française des trois premiers chapitres de Las puertas de la noche (Plaza Mayor, San Juan de Puerto Rico, 2002), roman policier de l’écrivain cubain Amir Valle, dont le style se caractérise par la culture qu’il véhicule, son registre familier, sa syntaxe complexe et ses figures de style.

Ivan le Terrible, ou La Russie au XVIe siècle : roman historique / par le comte Alexis Tolstoy ; traduit du russe avec une introduction par le prince Augustin Galitzin

Collection : Collection Saint-Michel

Histoire du bon chevalier Bayart, d'après le loyal serviteur et d'autres auteurs contemporains / texte établi par M. J. Roman,...

Collection : Petits mémoires sur l'histoire de France ; V

The short arm of the law: judicial institutions and local governance in Brazil

This paper estimates the effect of judicial institutions on governance at the local level in Brazil. Our estimation strategy exploits a unique institutional feature of state judiciary branches which assigns prosecutors and judges to the most populous among contiguous counties forming a judiciary district. As a result of this assignment mechanism there are counties with nearly identical populations, some with and some without local judicial presence, which we exploit to impute counterfactual outcomes. Conditional on observable county characteristics, offenses per civil servant are about 35% lower in counties that have a local seat of the state judiciary. The lower incidence of infractions stems mostly from fewer violations of financial management regulations by local administrators, fewer instances of problems in project execution and project managment, fewer cases of non-existent or ineffective civil society oversight and fewer cases of improper handling of remittances to local residents.