Woop-Woop! That's the Sound of The Police: Political Mobilization or Retreat?

• In Event: Race and Political Participation

Brief Overview

Past work on police contact's effect on political participation has been largely observational. We present findings from a novel experiment that randomized whether study participants experienced a police-initiated encounter before entering the lab.

Authors

• Jesse Lopez, Duke University

• Jasmine Smith, Duke University

• Arvind Krishnamurthy, Duke University