There's (rarely) a new sheriff in town: The incumbency advantage for local law enforcement

Zoorob, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102550

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“…The foundation for our data on election returns is previous work on mayoral elections 5 , 14 , 15 , county legislative elections 16 , sheriff elections 18 , 23 , prosecutor elections 24 , 25 , the MIT Election and Data Science’s Lab’s data on recent elections 26 , and the California statewide election database 27 . We built upon these datasets using several approaches.…”

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American local government elections database

de Benedictis-Kessner,

Lee,

Velez

et al. 2023

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The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new database of about 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests that encompasses races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties in the U.S. over the last three decades. This is the most comprehensive publicly-available source of information on local elections across the country. We provide partisan and demographic information about candidates in these races as well as electoral outcomes. This new database will facilitate a myriad of new research on representation and elections in local governments.

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“…Moreover, it is missing some elections in this target universe where we were unable to find data. In some cases, there may be raw election data for smaller geographic units available from the sources we discussed earlier 5 , 18 , 23 – 27 .…”

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American local government elections database

de Benedictis-Kessner,

Lee,

Velez

et al. 2023

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“…Unlike police chiefs, state police leaders, and federal bureau heads, who are all appointed, sheriffs are directly elected by voters. Yet, sheriffs’ elections are particularly uncompetitive, with many sheriffs enjoying lengthy tenures with limited electoral oversight (Zoorob 2022). Sheriffs blend broad executive and bureaucratic powers in their positions, and their offices have a varying number of important responsibilities in law enforcement, including investigations, patrol, and management of county jail (Farris and Holman 2015, 2017).…”

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Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism

Farris,

Holman

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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An increasing number of U.S. sheriffs claim that they will not enforce gun safety policies from state and federal governments in their counties. As locally elected law enforcement with a unique institutional position and significant powers, sheriffs play a key role in local policy implementation. To better understand cooperation (or the lack thereof) between levels of government, we look at these sheriffs’ contentious relationships over firearm regulation. We argue that sheriffs mobilized to resist state and federal gun safety policies through right-wing extremist efforts, tracing the involvement of sheriffs in gun policy over time. Using two surveys of sheriffs (conducted in 2012 and 2021), we show that sheriffs’ preferences against gun safety measures relate to right-wing extremist attitudes, even with controls for political and demographic factors. We demonstrate relationships between sheriffs’ right-wing extremism and an expressed reluctance to support or enforce a wide set of gun safety policies.

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“…This is carried out in an organized manner to ensure the establishment of justice and order through state mechanisms. Law enforcement institutions include not only the police but also the public prosecutor's office, the judiciary, and legal practitioners (Hukumonline) (Becker & Bachman, 2020;Zoorob, 2022).…”

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Equality Before the Law in Law Enforcement in Indonesia

Suhendar,

Aringga

2024

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Law enforcement is an effort to uphold and implement the values of justice outlined in formal regulations. However, a significant obstacle often arises from the actions of law enforcement officers conflicting with existing laws. This article discusses law enforcement in Indonesia from the perspective of equality before the law, using a juridical-empirical research method through literature review. The results indicate several deviations in the law enforcement process that hinder the realization of the principle of equality before the law. One of the main causes is the morality of law enforcement officers themselves.

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There's (rarely) a new sheriff in town: The incumbency advantage for local law enforcement

Cited by 12 publications

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American local government elections database

American local government elections database

Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism

Equality Before the Law in Law Enforcement in Indonesia

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