Books

The Profits of Distrust

The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government (Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores how Americans’ relationship with drinking water informs their trust in government. We demonstrate that Americans who experience (or perceive) drinking water quality issues express decreased trust in government, and explore the consequences of this distrust within the private and public sectors. The Profits of Distrust was awarded the 2024 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize by the American Political Science Association, given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published within the past three years.

This is a co-authored book with Manny Teodoro (Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and David Switzer (Assistant Professor, University of Missouri). Order the book from Cambridge or from Amazon.

Don’t want to read a 300 page monograph? Check out the comic book version of our book instead, available at: https://mannyteodoro.com/?p=5147.

A Political Theory of Nonprofits (In progress)

My current book project explores how U.S. partisan politics shape the nonprofit sector.