3 - Professional careers

Safe Drinking Water Act: The Next Fifty Years 💻

A new book aims to shape the national conversation Now available from Palgrave Macmillan In December 2024, the La Follette School at UW-Madison and the Water & Health Advisory Council gathered researchers, regulators, water sector executives, and community

Safe Drinking Water Act: The Next Fifty Years 📖

Palgrave Macmillan Manuel P. Teodoro, Editor In this open access book, contributors explore current challenges and opportunities to improve drinking water regulation, governance, management, environmental justice, and more. In 2024, the United States marked

Why PFAS Policymakers Should Read Past the Abstract 📰

WATER ONLINE Manny Teodoro, Chad Seidel, and Joe Cotruvo When it comes to drinking water, sound public policy requires sound scientific research. Publication in a prestigious, peer-reviewed journal helps establish legitimacy for scientific claims

Insufferable 💻

Maybe engineers really are better at managing water utilities* if Hogwarts had an engineering school Does a utility leader’s education matter for the performance of his/her utility? Recently I wrote about the academic backgrounds of

From Cap & Gown to Corner Office 💻

Exploring the diverse academic backgrounds of water’s top leaders School’s out for summer, so I finally have a bit more time to blog about… school.🙃 This post continues an occasional series on water utility

The Slow Flow of Progress💻

Racial diversity in water leadership AI's idea of diverse water utility leaders. Creepy, I know. Long ignored, racial and ethnic diversity are now high priorities for the water sector.* Diversity is especially important in

2024 La Follette School Commencement Address 💻

On May 12, at the invitation of the graduating MPA/MIPA candidates, I shared remarks at the 2024 graduation ceremony in the Wisconsin State Assembly chambers. Here’s what I had to say - or you

Reading the Tea Leaves 💻

Notes on the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Part II* The Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act is 1,039 pages long. That’s a lot of tea. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA, better known as

Boys Will Be Superintendents 🎓

School leadership as a gendered profession PDK: Phi Delta Kappan Robert Maranto, Kristen Carroll, Albert Cheng, and Manuel P. Teodoro Even though the teaching profession is dominated by women, men hold more superintendent positions.

Gendered Ambition 🎓

Men’s and Women’s Career Advancement in Public Administration ARPA: The American Review of Public Administration Robert Maranto, Manuel P. Teodoro, Kristen Carroll, and Albert Cheng My kids. Clinton, NY. 2009 We explore the relationships

Human Capital as Infrastructure 💻

This is the fourth in my series of posts on the recently released White House infrastructure plan. Release of the White House infrastructure plan triggered a flurry of news about the nation’s ports, dams,

Presidents, Baseball, and Wins above Expectations 🎓

What Can Sabermetrics Tell Us about Presidential Success? PS: Political Science & Politics Manuel P. Teodoro & Jon R. Bond Why Ronald Reagan is like Bobby Cox and Lyndon Johnson is like Joe Torre Presidential

Contingent Technocracy 🎓

Bureaucratic independence in developing countries Journal of Public Policy Manuel P. Teodoro & M. Anne Pitcher This study investigates the effects of formal bureaucratic independence under varying democratic conditions. Conventional accounts predict that greater

Drinking from the Talent Pool 🎓

A Resource Endowment Theory of Human Capital and Agency Performance PAR: Public Administration Review Manuel P. Teodoro & David Switzer This article advances a resource endowment theory of human capital and performance in government

When Professionals Lead: Executive Management, Normative Isomorphism, and Policy Implementation🎓

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2014 If professionalism shapes executive behavior significantly, then agencies whose executives belong to a particular profession ought to manage differently from similarly situated executives who do not,

Water Utility Executive Leadership for the 21st Century 📜

Water Research Foundation Manuel Teodoro & Linda Reekie This 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

Moving In, Managing Up 🎓

Executive job formation and political behaviour Journal of Public Policy Manuel P. Teodoro Public agency executive jobs are temporary matches of individual bureaucrats with government employers. Together, the buyers and sellers of executive labour

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 Science Manuel P. Teodoro In studies of innovation, policy entrepreneurs recognize latent demand for new policies and then expend resources to promote them. But studies of policy entrepreneurs have