The budget and taxes dominated Washington’s 2010 legislative agenda. The Democrat-led legislature had to close a $2.8 billion shortfall for the 2009-2011 biennium. Unable to resolve debate on a mixture of program cuts and revenue enhancements, the legislature concluded its 60-day regular...

Only limited research was available on the important question of the likely determinants of changes in budgetary allocations to municipal police agencies over time. Within that rather limited set of studies, three distinct perspectives on hypothesized key determinants of funding levels for...

The advent of the War on Terrorism raises the question of the short-term impacts on public opinion of terrorist attacks with respect to the idea of universal military service in the United States. Previous studies indicate that international crises tend to produce a polarizing effect on public...

The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of social control and social support policies associated with conservative and liberal political ideologies with respect to violent crime in large U.S. cities during the 1990s. Eighty-five cities with populations of 150,000+ were included in...

We assessed attempts by federal and state agencies to utilize a Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving (COPPS) approach to address endangered species and natural resource protection issues in two watersheds in Washington State involving listed species of salmon, steelhead and bull...