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100			_aHoang, Bai Linh and Benjamin, Andrea _959433
245			_a“Defund” or “refund” the police?: City council responsiveness to the black lives matter protests
260			_aUrban Affairs Review
300			_a60(1), Jan, 2024: p.387-419
520			_aIn this research note, we investigate the degree to which local governments reduced or expanded the budgets of police departments in the aftermath of the nation-wide protests organized by the Black Lives Matter movement during the summer of 2020. We also consider the political and social factors that might explain local councils’ decisions on the budget. In analyzing an original dataset of about 100 of the most populous U.S. cities, we do not find strong evidence of government efforts to “defund” the police. However, across various specifications of potential responsiveness to the movement's demands, we do find that mayoral partisanship may be associated with local government decisions to meaningfully reduce their police budgets or abstain from increasing them, but even this relationship may not be sustained in the longer term. Thus, we encourage more research on barriers that potentially inhibit local government responsiveness to social movements like Black Lives Matter.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231187131
650			_aDefund the police, City councils, Local budgets, Protest behavior. _948596
773			_aUrban Affairs Review
906			_aURBAN DEVELOPMENT
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