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
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, 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.