Siân Mughan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4400489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siân Mughan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siân |
| FAMILY NAME | Mughan |
| SIGNATURE | MUGHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2404-7463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Policing, Technology, and Public Values
There is a great deal of research investigating how technologies produce efficiencies for police departments. Criminal justice research often focuses on a single technology and from a single perspective—the police—noting how technologies increase efficiency and efficacy for police departments. Researchers in science and technology studies also investigate how police departments adopt and use technology, but typically focus on the tensions between…
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales
This article combines unconditional quantile regressions with difference-in-differences to study the distributive effects of a foreign buyer tax (FBT) on home prices in New South Wales (NSW). The main results reveal that the FBT reduces house prices in NSW but only among the more expensive houses located in desirable neighborhoods of Sydney and with a relatively high share of foreign-born population. We find evidence that the FBT reduces transact…
Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana
Revenue‐motivated policing is a common explanation for law enforcement behavior. This means in times of fiscal stress police alter their behavior to increase the financial returns to their actions. But does variation in the institutional features of local governments lead to variation in law enforcement behavior? Using a plausibly exogenous measure of revenue need, this research explores how fiscal institutions that determine a local government's…
When Law Enforcement Pays
The billions of dollars in assets seized by law enforcement each year represent a crucial source of revenue for these organizations, but also raise important constitutional questions and can create significant tensions within the jurisdictions they administer. Research on asset forfeiture to date has focused heavily on municipal police, largely neglecting forfeiture activities by sheriffs. Thus, it has missed an important opportunity to build the…
When Do Municipal Consolidations Reduce Government Expenditures? Evidence on the Role of Local Involvement
Higher levels of government motivate municipal consolidations as a tool to increase efficiency in the local government sector, yet research shows that consolidations typically fail to deliver the promised spending reductions. Since mergers often require significant changes to institutional structures, one explanation is that local decision makers can substantially influence the outcomes of the consolidation process. To explore this possibility, t…
When Law Enforcement Pays
The billions of dollars in assets seized by law enforcement each year represent a crucial source of revenue for these organizations, but also raise important constitutional questions and can create significant tensions within the jurisdictions they administer. Research on asset forfeiture to date has focused heavily on municipal police, largely neglecting forfeiture activities by sheriffs. Thus, it has missed an important opportunity to build the…
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales
This article combines unconditional quantile regressions with difference-in-differences to study the distributive effects of a foreign buyer tax (FBT) on home prices in New South Wales (NSW). The main results reveal that the FBT reduces house prices in NSW but only among the more expensive houses located in desirable neighborhoods of Sydney and with a relatively high share of foreign-born population. We find evidence that the FBT reduces transact…
When Law Enforcement Pays
The billions of dollars in assets seized by law enforcement each year represent a crucial source of revenue for these organizations, but also raise important constitutional questions and can create significant tensions within the jurisdictions they administer. Research on asset forfeiture to date has focused heavily on municipal police, largely neglecting forfeiture activities by sheriffs. Thus, it has missed an important opportunity to build the…
When Do Municipal Consolidations Reduce Government Expenditures? Evidence on the Role of Local Involvement
Higher levels of government motivate municipal consolidations as a tool to increase efficiency in the local government sector, yet research shows that consolidations typically fail to deliver the promised spending reductions. Since mergers often require significant changes to institutional structures, one explanation is that local decision makers can substantially influence the outcomes of the consolidation process. To explore this possibility, t…
Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana
Revenue‐motivated policing is a common explanation for law enforcement behavior. This means in times of fiscal stress police alter their behavior to increase the financial returns to their actions. But does variation in the institutional features of local governments lead to variation in law enforcement behavior? Using a plausibly exogenous measure of revenue need, this research explores how fiscal institutions that determine a local government's…
Policing, Technology, and Public Values
There is a great deal of research investigating how technologies produce efficiencies for police departments. Criminal justice research often focuses on a single technology and from a single perspective—the police—noting how technologies increase efficiency and efficacy for police departments. Researchers in science and technology studies also investigate how police departments adopt and use technology, but typically focus on the tensions between…
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales
This article combines unconditional quantile regressions with difference-in-differences to study the distributive effects of a foreign buyer tax (FBT) on home prices in New South Wales (NSW). The main results reveal that the FBT reduces house prices in NSW but only among the more expensive houses located in desirable neighborhoods of Sydney and with a relatively high share of foreign-born population. We find evidence that the FBT reduces transact…
Business (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Regulation and Compliance Studies (3 works) · Enforcement (2 works) · Finance (2 works)