Peer Reviewed Research - Manny Teodoro

Public enterprise pricing as redistributive policy 🎓

Policy Studies JournalManuel P. Teodoro and David SwitzerAbstractThis paper analyzes public enterprise pricing as a form of redistributive politics. Beyond regulation and public goods, governments provide goods and services on a fee-for-service basis. Governments

Medium and Message by Mail🎓

A Field Experiment to Promote Low-Income Assistance ProgramsPublic Administration Review, January 2025Manuel P. TeodoroJean SmithSummaryDirect mail can reduce learning burdens associated with assistance programs, increase awareness of those programs, and lead to greater public

Medium and Message by Mail 🎓

A Field Experiment to Promote Low-Income Assistance ProgramsPublic Administration ReviewManuel P. Teodoro and Jean SmithABSTRACTLimited awareness impedes take-up in low-income utility assistance programs, which often suffer from low uptake. This study uses a field

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

AWWA Water Science, March 2022This 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 financial

Environmental Federalism in Indian Country 🎓

Sovereignty, primacy & environmental protectionPolicy Studies Journal, May 2020Mellie Haider, Manuel P. TeodoroThe landmark American environmental laws of the 1970s originally made no mention of American Indian tribal lands, and subsequent research on environmental

Public water waste reporting 🎓

Contextual correlates and conservation outcomesWater Resources Research Y. Zhang, M.P. Teodoro & D. SwitzerKey PointsParticipatory surveillance is a way for governments to increase water waste monitoring capacity and achieve conservation goalsSocial and institutional aspects

Water and Sewer Affordability in the United States, 2019 🎓

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

Water & Sewer Affordability in the United States 🎓

AWWA Water ScienceManuel P. TeodoroThe 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 utilities are

Political Decoupling 🎓

Private Implementation of Public PolicyPSJ: Policy Studies JournalManuel P. Teodoro, Youlang Zhang, David SwitzerWhere policy goals can be achieved through regulation of private firms, private provision of public services allows governments to separate public

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,

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Policy Implementation on Tribal Lands 🎓

Trust, Neglect, and JusticePSJ: Policy Studies JournalManuel P. Teodoro, Mellie Haider, David SwitzerThis study investigates the implementation of U.S. environmental protection laws under American Indian tribal governance. The landmark laws of the 1970s that

Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity 🎓

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

Presidents, Baseball, and Wins above Expectations 🎓

What Can Sabermetrics Tell Us about Presidential Success?PS: Political Science & PoliticsManuel P. Teodoro & Jon R. BondWhy Ronald Reagan is like Bobby Cox and Lyndon Johnson is like Joe TorrePresidential scholars and baseball writers

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

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

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2014If 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, and

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

The Institutional Politics of Water Conservation 🎓

Journal AWWAManuel P. TeodoroThis 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 the effects

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

Measuring Fairness 🎓

Assessing the Equity of Municipal Water RatesJournal AWWAManuel P. TeodoroMeaningful, scientific measures of water rate equity are elusive. Without a sound metric for equity, discussions of fairness in water rates are prone to political