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A Comparative Study of Public Support for the Police

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The authors used the data from the International Crime Victimization Survey and the World Values Survey to study the determinants of public support for the police in 28 countries and found that the respondents' attitudes towards the police were similar to those of the general public.
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I use the data from the International Crime Victimization Survey and the World Values Survey to study the determinants of public support for the police in 28 countries. I find that the respondents'...

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Governance matters VII: aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996-2007

TL;DR: The latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2007, is presented in this paper.
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