prefer fighting certain type of crimes more intensely, rather than increasing police efficiency overall. Lastly, our results … show that the post-reform benefits we observe dissolve when the management of local police has to be coordinated among …

with greater police strength. Our results suggest that the political empowerment of minority communities can contribute to …

crimes against women in the developing world. This paper investigates whether the election of a female politician reduces the … that the election of a female House Representative leads to a short-lived decline in the prevalence of femicides in her … electoral district. The drop in femicides is mainly driven by a deterrence effect that results from higher police responsiveness …

prefer fighting certain type of crimes more intensely, rather than increasing police efficiency overall. Lastly, our results … show that the post-reform benefits we observe dissolve when the management of local police has to be coordinated among …

arrestees from the Police to the Prison Authority. Using the staggered introduction of the reform in different regions of the …. These findings are consistent with the idea that the reform externalized the cost of housing arrestees from the Police …'s perspective, and therefore led the Police to increase its activity against crime …

Bei der Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament am 25. Mai 2014 treten die Parteien zum ersten Mal mit Spitzenkandidaten an …

assembly. Since 2005, however, they have had to compete in an open election where voters directly choose their preferred leader … institutions, except for the police. However, our finding does not hold in districts that experienced moderate or high hostility …

comparable across countries and over time. The results show that the reversed CPI was about 0.4 points higher in election years …

. The results show that the reversed CPI was about 0.4 points higher in election years than in other years, indicating that …