Ph.D. Candidate Jillian Jaeger Publishes Article in SPPQ
Jillian Jaeger, a Ph.D. candidate in the department recently published an article in State Politics and Policy Quarterly, a top subfield journal. In this solo piece – “Securing Communities or Profits? The Effect of Federal-Local Partnerships on Immigration Enforcement” — Jaeger evaluates local government’ immigration enforcement activities and compares ideological and resource based explanations. She finds that local police resources are more strongly associated with local deportation activity than ideology. That is, conservative communities are not more active enforcers of immigration laws, places with more resources are. She situates these findings into broader questions of Federal/Local partnerships in policy implementation.