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...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 235 - 243 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
April 1999
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