1 – Bureaucracy & democracy

Profits of Distrust at Seminary Co-op Bookstore 🎦

A conversation with Sabina Shaikh, University of ChicagoThe burgeoning bottled water industry presents a paradox: Why do people choose expensive, environmentally destructive bottled water, rather than cheaper, sustainable, and more rigorously regulated tap water?

The Profits of Distrust 📖

Cambridge University Press, 2022The choices people make about drinking water reveal deeper lessons about trust in government and civic life.The burgeoning bottled water industry presents a paradox: Why do people choose expensive, environmentally destructive

Art of the Possible 💻

Why water should be the Biden Administration’s top environmental priorityEvidently the president-elect is confident managing stormwater.The Biden administration’s environmental policy priorities are likely to be quite different from the Trump administration’s, and the impending

Smart People 💻

Water Sector Reform #4: Human CapitalPeople + PipesWith a major federal investment in water infrastructure possibly on the horizon, the United States has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to leverage that money into a structural transformation

Boys Will Be Superintendents 🎓

School leadership as a gendered professionPDK: Phi Delta KappanRobert Maranto, Kristen Carroll, Albert Cheng, and Manuel P. TeodoroEven though the teaching profession is dominated by women, men hold more superintendent positions. The authors examine

Gendered Ambition 🎓

Men’s and Women’s Career Advancement in Public AdministrationARPA: The American Review of Public AdministrationRobert Maranto, Manuel P. Teodoro, Kristen Carroll, and Albert ChengMy kids. Clinton, NY. 2009We explore the relationships between gender, career ambition,

Public Administration & the Border Crisis 💻

Public Administration Professionalism at the FlashpointPresidents issue orders, Congress passes laws, and courts make judgments, but immigration policy really succeeds or fails when bureaucrats interact with people seeking entry to the United States. Immigration

What’s up with the Blue Angels? 💻

One of my favorite things about growing up in Seattle was Seafair, an annual three-week festival, featuring hydroplane races, ethnic celebrations, beauty pageants, a Navy flotilla on Elliott Bay, and a wild nighttime torchlight

Roses by other names 💻

Ever notice that people hate government but love certain government agencies?A couple years ago I was shopping at Target and noticed racks full of NASA-branded merchandise for sale. The idea that bureaucraphobic Americans would

Citizen-Based Brand Equity 🎓

A Model and Experimental EvaluationJPART: Journal of Public Administration and TheoryManuel P. Teodoro & Seung-Ho AnGovernment agencies carry reputations in the public imagination. Agency names, images, and icons help form a brand that conveys

Institutions and Democracy in Africa 📖

Chapter 7 - The Bureaucracy: Policy Implementation and ReformCambridge University PressM. Anne Pitcher & Manuel P. TeodoroNew bureaucratic agencies – most commonly central banks, privatisation agencies and regulatory commissions – multiplied across Africa following

Contingent Technocracy 🎓

Bureaucratic independence in developing countriesJournal of Public PolicyManuel P. Teodoro & M. Anne PitcherThis study investigates the effects of formal bureaucratic independence under varying democratic conditions. Conventional accounts predict that greater formal independence of

Drinking from the Talent Pool 🎓

A Resource Endowment Theory of Human Capital and Agency PerformancePAR: Public Administration ReviewManuel P. Teodoro & David SwitzerThis article advances a resource endowment theory of human capital and performance in government organizations. Building on

Water Utility Executive Leadership for the 21st Century 📜

Water Research FoundationManuel Teodoro & Linda ReekieThis study developed a summary of the drinking water community executive ranks, including their demographics, educational qualifications, professional backgrounds, skills, career paths, and personalities. This information reveals who

Moving In, Managing Up 🎓

Executive job formation and political behaviourJournal of Public PolicyManuel P. TeodoroPublic agency executive jobs are temporary matches of individual bureaucrats with government employers. Together, the buyers and sellers of executive labour form jobs in

Bureaucratic Ambition 📖

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator Teodoro explains the systems that foster or frustrate entrepreneurship among public executives. Through case studies and quantitative analysis of original data, he shows

Bureaucratic Job Mobility & the Diffusion of Innovations 🎓

AJPS: American Journal of Political ScienceManuel P. TeodoroIn studies of innovation, policy entrepreneurs recognize latent demand for new policies and then expend resources to promote them. But studies of policy entrepreneurs have generally focused