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
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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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Analysis
California
Cities
Community policing
Consolidation
Constituencies
Consumption
Costs
Counties
Criminal investigations
Decision theory
Economics
Elections
Empirical research
Family income
Households
Hypotheses
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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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