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


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


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


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


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Studies Journal, May 2020 ​Mellie Haider, Manuel P. Teodoro The landmark American environmental laws of the 1970s originally made no mention of American Indian tribal lands, and subsequent


​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


​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


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


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


​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.


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


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


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


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


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,


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


​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


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


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,


​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


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


​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


Assessing the Equity of Municipal Water Rates Journal AWWA Manuel P. Teodoro ​Meaningful, scientific measures of water rate equity are elusive. Without a sound metric for equity, discussions of fairness in water rates are