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Title: Spatial Patterns of Municipal Annexation and the Impact on the Cost of Police Services

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: In cities with ample space to expand, municipal annexation is a versatile urban growth management tool because it can direct the location of future land development and population growth. However, limited research has addressed the cost of providing public services, specifically police services, in cities which have undergone varyingspatialformsofmunicipalannexation. Inthisthesis,Itestthehypothesisthat there are costs associated with increasingly spatially fragmented forms of annexation. I perform regression analysis on two spatial descriptors of non-compact boundaries using anationalsampleof119UnitedStatescitiesfortheperiod1990to2010. Thesample includes cities which exhibited a high areal growth rate exceeding 5% and a population thresholdofatleast75,000inhabitantsacrossthestudyperiod. Whencontrollingfor both city-specific factors and national trends in police expenditure, I found no association at the 10% significance level to support a relationship between fragmented annexation and the costs of police services. This research shows that criticisms of fragmented patterns of annexation cannot be justified solely on the basis of increased police service costs.

Url: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1131&context=honorstheses

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Authors: DeMaria, Kyle, B

Institution: The College of William & Mary

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Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies

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Pages: 46

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Other

Countries: United States