CONSTITUENCY PREFERENCE AND POLICE CONSOLIDATION: THE CASE OF WEST HOLLYWOOD

This study estimates the determinants of voter behavior in a local referendum on contracting for municipal police services. Recent empirical research has found that police services are produced under decreasing returns to scale. The electorate in West Hollywood, California decided in 1992 to maintai...

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Published in:Contemporary economic policy 1999-04, Vol.17 (2), p.235-242
Main Author: FINNEY, MILES
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agreements
Analysis
California
Cities
Community policing
Consolidation
Constituencies
Consumption
Costs
Counties
Criminal investigations
Decision theory
Economics
Elections
Empirical research
Family income
Households
Hypotheses
Local government
Municipalities
Police
Police departments
Policy studies
Population
Preferences
Probability
Referendum
Referendums
Regression analysis
Studies
Tax base
U.S.A
Voter behavior
Voters
Voting behaviour
Voting research
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Summary:This study estimates the determinants of voter behavior in a local referendum on contracting for municipal police services. Recent empirical research has found that police services are produced under decreasing returns to scale. The electorate in West Hollywood, California decided in 1992 to maintain its police contractual agreement with the larger county police department. This paper finds that economic costs/benefits were significant determinants of the voters' decisions, suggesting that the electorate's expectations on the relative costs of the alternative police regimes contradict the efficiency implications of recent empirical research. (JEL H31, H77)
ISSN:1074-3529
1465-7287
DOI:10.1111/j.1465-7287.1999.tb00678.x