The partisan politics of law and order, Georg Wenzelburger
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The partisan politics of law and order, Georg Wenzelburger
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The partisan politics of law and order
Medium
electronic resource
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bibliographydictionaries
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1149257721
Responsibility statement
Georg Wenzelburger
Series statement
Studies in crime and public policyOxford scholarship online.
Summary
The comparative study of law and order policies has mostly overlooked partisan politics as a possible explanation of differences between Western nations. Filling this gap in the literature, this book argues theoretically and substantiates empirically that law and order policies are heavily affected by partisan politics. By means of a large-N analysis of spending data and a new dataset on law and order legislation as well as four in-depth case studies, the empirical evidence shows that party competition and the party ideology of governments do affect policies-depending on the institutional context of a political system. Moreover, path dependencies tend to freeze these effects over a certain period of time creating positive feedback dynamics.--, Provided by publisher
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specialized
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