The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government (Paperback or Softback)

Manuel P. Teodoro is Associate Professor at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He works at the intersection of politics, policy, and management, with a focus on water in the United States. His research involves utility governance, regulation, and environmental justice. A prolific speaker, blogger, and author of Bureaucratic Ambition (2011), Teodoro has advised water sector leaders for more than twenty-five years.

Samantha Zuhlke is Assistant Professor in the School of Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Iowa. She applies novel methods of spatial analysis to investigate important problems in public policy, public administration, and environmental politics. Her current research examines how partisan politics shape the US nonprofit sector.

David Switzer is Assistant Professor at the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri. He researches environmental policy, politics, and administration. His work focuses on local government water policy in the United States, examining the how the interactions between institutions, citizens, and the environment inform the implementation and development of public policy at the local level.