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Sarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The research is focused on local politics in the United States and will support a project about decision-making in local government. This project explores: 1) what local officials vote on in in US local government, 2) the role of partisanship in voting, and 3) how municipality size conditions the...
Social SciencesSarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
In the wake of the events of Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, the descriptive and substantive under-representation of minorities in local governments has become an issue of pressing concern. Reformers and litigators have focused almost exclusively on the notion that minority representation is a simple matter of creating minority-majority...
Social SciencesSarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the role of businesses and business associations in local politics and local government in the United States. The project has two parts. One is a qualitative data collection focused on the local policy priorities and goals of chambers of commerce in cities and counties across the country...
Social Sciences