The Influence of Police Unions in Local Elections. Evidence from U.S. Cities Spending and Performance

• In Event: The Local Politics of Policing

Brief Overview

Police unions are considered a powerful interest group yet we lack systematic evidence on the determinants of their involvement and on its consequences. We fill this gap with the first large scale dataset on campaign finance in U.S. local elections.

Authors

• Maria Carreri, UC Berkeley and Bocconi University

• Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University

• Rui Yu, University of Pennsylvania