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Shifting Currents in Leadership 📝

US Water Utility Executive Demographics, Education, and Career Paths Journal AWWA Manuel P. Teodoro, X.F. Hopp, Natalie L. Smith Top executive leaders influence the overall operation and performance of the utilities they lead. Breaking

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

PBS University Roundtable 🎦

Report Cards for Wisconsin’s Drinking Water Utilities Click image to watch video on YouTube - or look for it on PBS Wisconsin.

The Customer is Always Right 📰

Why complaints are actually good for a utility Water Environment & Technology Manuel P. Teodoro and Mark Holstad Abstract Customer complaints may feel like a burden, but they are often a powerful sign of

Public enterprise pricing as redistributive policy 🎓

Policy Studies Journal Manuel P. Teodoro and David Switzer Abstract This paper analyzes public enterprise pricing as a form of redistributive politics. Beyond regulation and public goods, governments provide goods and services on a

Medium and Message by Mail🎓

A Field Experiment to Promote Low-Income Assistance Programs Public Administration Review, January 2025 Manuel P. TeodoroJean Smith Summary Direct mail can reduce learning burdens associated with assistance programs, increase awareness of those programs, and

Medium and Message by Mail 🎓

A Field Experiment to Promote Low-Income Assistance Programs Public Administration Review Manuel P. Teodoro and Jean Smith ABSTRACT Limited awareness impedes take-up in low-income utility assistance programs, which often suffer from low uptake. This

Helping People Pay Their Sky-High Water Bills Is a SNAP 📰

Opinion published in Newsweek, 3/29/2023 Everything is more expensive these days—even tap water. U.S. water utility prices have been rising faster than general inflation, driven in large part by a need to replace and update

Profits of Distrust at Seminary Co-op Bookstore 🎦

A conversation with Sabina Shaikh, University of Chicago The 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

Assistance program administration & distributional impacts 💻

A thought experiment and back-of-envelope illustration Water/sewer utility customer assistance programs (CAPs) don’t run themselves. When utilities use rate revenue to pay for CAPs, administrative costs can quickly eat into benefits that such programs

The Profits of Distrust 📖

Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government Cambridge University Press, 2022 The choices people make about drinking water reveal deeper lessons about trust in government and civic life. The burgeoning

Issue framing and public willingness to pay water & sewer rate increases 🎓

AWWA Water Science, March 2022 This study uses an embedded survey experiment to evaluate the effects of issue framing on willingness to pay water and sewer rate increases. Government-owned utilities require public support for

And Water for All 🎦

Ramiro Berardo, Director ...And Water For All is an educational documentary about water affordability in Ohio. The film aims to amplify the voices of those who work toward providing clean, affordable water for all.

Environmental Federalism in Indian Country 🎓

Sovereignty, primacy & environmental protection Policy Studies Journal, May 2020 Mellie Haider, Manuel P. Teodoro The landmark American environmental laws of the 1970s originally made no mention of American Indian tribal lands, and subsequent

Public water waste reporting 🎓

Contextual correlates and conservation outcomes Water Resources Research Y. Zhang, M.P. Teodoro & D. Switzer Key Points Participatory surveillance is a way for governments to increase water waste monitoring capacity and achieve conservation goals

Water and Sewer Affordability in the United States, 2019 🎓

AWWA Water Science Manuel P. Teodoro and Robin Rose Saywitz This study uses contemporary metrics and data from an original, representative sample of water and sewer utilities in the United States to calculate the

Water & Sewer Affordability in the United States 🎓

AWWA Water Science Manuel P. Teodoro The ability of low-income families to pay for basic water and sewer services is a subject of increasing concern. Large-scale assessments of affordability across large numbers of American

Political Decoupling 🎓

Private Implementation of Public Policy PSJ: Policy Studies Journal Manuel P. Teodoro, Youlang Zhang, David Switzer Where policy goals can be achieved through regulation of private firms, private provision of public services allows governments

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

Citizen-Based Brand Equity 🎓

A Model and Experimental Evaluation JPART: Journal of Public Administration and Theory Manuel P. Teodoro & Seung-Ho An Government agencies carry reputations in the public imagination. Agency names, images, and icons help form a

Institutions and Democracy in Africa 📖

Chapter 7 - The Bureaucracy: Policy Implementation and Reform Cambridge University Press M. Anne Pitcher & Manuel P. Teodoro New bureaucratic agencies – most commonly central banks, privatisation agencies and regulatory commissions – multiplied

Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Justice in Safe Drinking Water Act Compliance 🎓

Social Science Quarterly David Switzer & Manuel P. Teodoro See Full Article Objective Past research yields inconsistent evidence of disparities in environmental quality by socioeconomic status (SES), race, and/or ethnicity. Since the political significance

U.S. Environmental Policy Implementation on Tribal Lands 🎓

Trust, Neglect, and Justice PSJ: Policy Studies Journal Manuel P. Teodoro, Mellie Haider, David Switzer This study investigates the implementation of U.S. environmental protection laws under American Indian tribal governance. The landmark laws of

Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity 🎓

Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance Water Security Amber Wutich, Jessica Buddz, Laura Eichelberger, Jo Geere, Leila Harris, Wendy Jepson, Emma Norman, Kathleen O’Reilly, Amber Pearson, Sameer Shah,

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 & Wastewater Finance & Pricing 📖

Chapter 22 - Financial Capability and Affordability CRC Press MANUEL P. TEODORO & JON P. DAVIS A Strategy Guide for Water Utility Managers and Executives, and a Compendium of Best Financial Practices for Utility

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

The Institutional Politics of Water Conservation 🎓

Journal AWWA Manuel P. Teodoro This article analyzes the influence of local governmental structures on the likelihood that utilities adopt one of two water conservation policies: conservation rates and landscape audits. Statistical analysis tests