Publications

Book
Teodoro, Manuel P., Samantha Zuhlke, and David Switzer. 2022. The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government. Cambridge University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles
Zuhlke, Samantha, Drew E. Latta, Kate Beeman, Amukta Gantalamohini, James Kacer, Grace Koch, Danielle Land, Abby McKeone, Casie A. Meyer, Matthew R. Nagorzanski, Abdul H. Quraishi, LilliAnna Scott, Hanseob Shin, Martin A. St Clair, Darrin A. Thompson, and David M. Cwiertny. 2026. Water Quality of U.S. Drinking Water Kiosks: Lead Release from “Lead Free” Plumbing after Reverse Osmosis Treatment. Environmental Science & Technology 60(7): 5259-5269.

Calderon, Cervantes, M.A. and Samantha Zuhlke. 2025. Birds of a Feather, Flock Together: Examining Racial Identity and Giving During 2020. VOLUNTAS 36: 642-662.
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Cook, Scott, Samantha Zuhlke, and Robin Saywitz. 2024. Potholes, 311 reports, and a theory of heterogeneous resident demand for city services. Policy Studies Journal 52(3): 647-669.
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Zuhlke, Samantha. 2024. Presidents and Nonprofits: Illustrating Compositional Modeling of the U.S. Nonprofit Sector. Social Science Quarterly 105(4): 1014-1028.

Zuhlke, Samantha, Juniper Katz, and Emani Brinkman. 2024. Strike While the Iron is Hot: Land Trusts, Temperature Anomalies, and Agenda Setting for Local Open Space Referenda. Nonprofit Policy Forum 15(4): 315-347.

Perry, Brittany, Samantha Zuhlke, and Fernando Tormos-Aponte. 2023. Building Infrastructure to Enhance Diversity in Political Methodology. PS: Political Science & Politics 56(1): 178-182.

Zuhlke, Samantha. 2022. Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 32(3): 455-472.

Paarlberg, Laurie, and Samantha Zuhlke. 2019. Revisiting the Theory of Government Failure in the Face of Heterogeneous Demand. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance 2(2): 103-124.

Cook, Scott J., John Niehaus, and Samantha Zuhlke. 2018. A Warning on Separation in Multinomial Logistic Models. Research & Politics 5(2): 1-5.

Other Publications
Zuhlke, Samantha. 2026. Strong Claims, Weak Regulation: Commercial Drinking Water and the Safe Drinking Water Act. In: Teodoro, Manuel P. (eds) Safe Drinking Water Act. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Zuhlke, Samantha, Melissa Walker, Ted Corrigan, and David M. Cwiertny. 2025. In Tap We Dis(Trust): Why Customers Choose Bottled Water. Journal AWWA 117(9): 18-26.

Zuhlke, Samantha. 2024. Book Review: Trust in Government Agencies in the Time of COVID-19, by Scott E. Robinson, Kuhika Gupta, Joseph Ripberger, Jennifer A. Ross, Andrew Fox, Hank Jenkins-Smith, and Carol Silva. The International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 42(2-3): 154-155.

Paarlberg, Laurie and Samantha Zuhlke. 2023. “Government Failure.” In Kearns, Kevin P. & Wen-Jiun Wang (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership, and Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Frumkin, Peter and Samantha Zuhlke. 2022. “Philanthropy and Politics” In: List, R.A., Anheier, H. K., & Toepler, S. (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer, Cham.