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Elections as Focusing Events: Explaining Attitudes Toward the Police and the Government in Comparative Perspective
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Law & Society Review
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Walker, Lee Demetrius; Waterman, Richard W
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Copyright informationCopyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Traditional views hold that citizens' attitudes toward the police are driven by local concerns. We contend that public attitudes toward the police are responsive to systematic and periodic national-level political factors. In particular, we show that national elections as a focusing event alter periodically the determinants of attitudes toward the police. Using a logistic regression model and diachronic data from Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States, we find that attitudes toward the police and the national government are linked, and this linkage is responsive to the influence of national election campaigns in varying degrees. In addition, we find that attitudes toward the Mexican ...
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