Local governments in the United States provide essential services and allocate an
enormous share of the country's public goods. Knowing how benefits are distributed and …

Using a multilevel comparative framework, we propose that politically receptive city contexts
facilitate the viability of marginalized neighborhoods. To illustrate this proposition, we …

Representative bureaucracy theory is central to public administration scholarship due to the
likely relationship between the demographic composition of the public workforce and both …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, school district politics rose to prominence on the nation's
political agenda, as school boards grappled with controversial decisions about reopening …

The first book length study of agonism as a mature account of democratic politics,
Institutionalizing Agonistic Democracy provides a lucid overview of agonistic democratic …

The theory of representative bureaucracy posits that citizens will view policy and service
delivery more favorably if public servants share their background characteristics. However …

Ideological congruence is an important and popular measure of the quality of political
representation. The closer the match between the preferences of the public and those of …

Can descriptive representation for a stigmatized group change the beliefs and intentions of
members of dominant groups? To address this question, I focus on quotas (reservations) …

Local governments play a central role in American democracy, providing essential services
such as policing, water, and sanitation. Moreover, Americans express great confidence in …

Does a black mayor's inauguration influence American cities' policies? The heated rhetoric
surrounding some black–white elections suggests that it might. Past research is divided. Yet …