What Mayors Think: National Politics in Local Policy

Principal Investigator

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  Katherine Levine Einstein

  Urban-H Index Associate Director of Housing

Co-Principal Investigator

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  David Glick

  Professor & Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science

In their new study, Assistant Professors Katherine Einstein and David Glick, lead authors of the 2014 and 2015 Menino Survey of Mayors, will combine extensive mayoral interview data with municipal capital expenditures, mayoral support for city ordinances and mayoral demographic data. They evaluate the extent to which national policies influence local politics, how closely mayoral policymaking follows national guidelines, and if national agendas influence mayoral policy agendas.

Einstein and Glick will use two rounds of survey data to illustrate mayors’ policy priorities and investigate whether they are indeed prioritizing traditionally national issues. Subsequently, they will use data on budgets and city ordinances to explore the extent to which these priorities are translated into local policies.

Publications

Einstein, Katherine Levine and Glick, David M. (2016). Mayors, Partisanship, and Redistribution. Urban Affairs Review.

Press

Florida, Richard. (2017, Jan 5). How Do Mayors Think About Inequality?. The Atlantic at CityLab.

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