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Social Context, Institutional Capacity, and Police Services: A Local Public Economies Perspective
Author(s) -
LeonMoreta Agustin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12875
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , census , public administration , political science , institutional theory , regional science , public economics , economic growth , sociology , economics , geography , social science , population , demography , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science
This article examines levels of policing services, focusing on an assessment of resources and their measurement for municipalities. Two measures of policing levels assess the reliability of the findings across alternative measurements. Social and institutional characteristics are explored to evaluate alternative explanations in policing efforts. The article presents four decades of census data for municipalities in metropolitan areas. The central finding is that unequal levels of policing are prevalent across American municipalities. An additional finding is that social and institutional contexts affect policing, based on a pooled time‐series analysis of municipal governments. Although its main contribution is to local public economies research, the research also integrates the social and institutional literatures to identify factors in the allocation of resources to policing .