Community Feedback Effects on Increasing the Number of Candidates Running for Local Office: Evidence from Police Involved Deaths

• In Event: The Local Politics of Policing

Brief Overview

Extending prior work on the effect of police killings on turnout and civilian initiated contact that use a policy feedback framework, we question whether police killings may also push new candidates to emerge and run for local office.

Authors

• Susan Marie Miller, Arizona State University

• Kelsey Shoub, University of Massachusetts