Associate Professor Yang Wang was named a Vilas Associate. Professor Susan Yackee’s paper won the Kenneth J. Meier Award.
Public Management
New report cards indicate Wisconsin water utilities excel in water quality, but concerns remain
Most of Wisconsin’s water utilities provide safe, healthy drinking water with 92% of the state’s water utilities earning A grades for water quality (health) in a first-of-its-kind water utility report card designed by Professor Manuel P. Teodoro.
As water pipes crumble, so does our trust in government. Here’s how we fix this.
Manny Teodoro reflects on the 50-year impact of the Safe Drinking Water Act and shares opportunities for improvement in Wisconsin and nationwide over the next 50 years.
Safe Drinking Water Act turns 50: symposium charts path for the future of America’s tap water
For the 50th anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the La Follette School of Public Affairs partnered with the Water & Health Advisory Council to host an event envisioning the future of U.S. drinking water.
How do we rebuild trust? One simple answer is to ask people what they think.
Denia Garcia addresses the lack of trust in government and her research on participatory budgeting.
La Follette bolsters its world-class faculty
La Follette is thrilled to welcome three new faculty members this fall: Silvia Barcellos, Myriam Grégoire-Zawilski, and Amber Wichowsky.
New faculty Q&A: Amber Wichowsky
Amber Wichowsky joined the La Follette School’s faculty in fall 2024. She discusses her research, teaching, and more.
Teodoro’s book wins prestigious Caldwell Prize
The American Political Science Association awarded the 2024 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize to Manny Teodoro and his co-authors for their 2022 book, “The Profits of Distrust”
2024 Kohl Competition winners announced
The Kohl Competition awards funding to faculty research projects that exemplify evidence-based policymaking and meaningfully shape public policy.
Chicago’s participatory budgeting a positive, but incomplete, step toward inclusion
A new study finds that distrust in government was common among both those who voted in the participatory budgeting election and those who refused to vote.