Can Democracy Control the Cops? Autonomous American Police Departments in Comparative Perspective

• In Event: The Local Politics of Policing

Brief Overview

We seek to explain cross-national variation in the autonomy of police bureaus vis-a-vis democratically accountable officials across OECD democracies.

Authors

• Rob Waite Mickey, University of Michigan

• Jake Grumbach, University of Washington

• Daniel F. Ziblatt, Harvard University