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The abstract for paper number 502:
Hilik Goldstein, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Michael Sonis, Bar-Ilan University, , Israel
Spouse Complaints to the Police as a Measure of Reliability of the Authorities: Regional Comparison
The paper deals with the measurement of the authorities reliability in Israel. The main assumption of the paper is that this goal is possible to achieve on the basis of statistical data concerning the spouse complaints to police. The ability of the state authorities to introduce expectations for positive intervention into family decision-making is an important indicator of society’s confidence in the authorities. The spread of this confidence can be considered as a socio-spatial process of diffusion of the “captive alternatives” of social choice. It is important to stress that the degree of penetration of captive alternatives of individual choice cannot be presented as a measure of “social correctness” of such a choice. The suitable conceptual framework for the consideration of individual choice within the society (collective) is a new model of the choice behavior of “social men”, which is a “collective being” opposite to the optimization models of the choice behavior of “economic men” or of “political men”. The important part of the paper presents an analytical description and a numerical method of the measuring of the “captivity” of spouse complaints to the police on the level of six official police districts during the period from January 1998 till December 2001.
Unfortunately full paper has not been submitted.