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"Political Consequences of the Endangered Local Watchdog: Newspaper Decline and Mayoral Elections in the United States" by Meghan E. Rubado and Jay T. Jennings, UAR 56(5), 2020.

"Recidivism and Neighborhood Governance" by Michael Craw and Tusty ten Bensel, UAR 56(4), 2020.

"Roles and Motivations of Planning Professionals Who Promote Public Participation in Urban Planning Practice: Two Case Studies from Beijing, China" by Lin Zhang, Pieter Hooimeijer, Yanliu Lin, and Stan Geertman, UAR 56(4), 2020.

"To Be Central or Peripheral? What Matters for Political Representation in Amalgamated Municipalities?" by Petr Voda and Petra Svačinová, UAR 56(4), 2020.

"Capital Cities in Interurban Competition: Local Autonomy, Urban Governance, and Locational Policy Making" by David Kaufmann, UAR 56(4), 2020.

"Race, Representation, and Revenue: Reliance on Fines and Forfeitures in City Governments" by Akheil Singla, Charlotte Kirschner, and Samuel B. Stone, UAR 56(4), 2020.

🎺🎺🎺 NEW on the UAR Forum! Read the next piece, "Delivering the New Urban Crisis," in our inaugural graduate student essay competition, by Isaac Oates of the CUNY Graduate Center. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

"Governing the New Geography of Poverty in Metropolitan America" by Elizabeth Mattiuzzi and Margaret Weir, UAR 56(4), 2020.

"Ethno-Racial Appeals and the Production of Political Capital: Evidence from Chicago and Toronto" by Jan Doering, UAR 56(4), 2020.

"Analyzing Urban Politics: A Mobilization–Governance Framework" by Stephen J. McGovern, UAR 56(4), 2020.

"Accountability of Business Improvement District in Urban Governance Networks: An Investigation of State Enabling Laws" by Göktuğ Morçöl and Turgay Karagoz, UAR 56(3), 2020.

"Financial Engineering by City Governments: Factors Associated with the Use of Debt-Related Derivatives" by Akheil Singla and Martin J. Luby, UAR 56(3), 2020.

"The Unequal Spatial Distribution of City Government Fines: The Case of Parking Tickets in Los Angeles" by Noli Brazil, UAR 56(3), 2020.

"How Municipal Takeovers Reshape Urban Democracy: Comparing the Experiences of Camden, New Jersey and Flint, Michigan" by Ashley E. Nickels, Amanda D. Clark, and Zachary D. Wood, UAR 56(3), 2020.

"Upzoning Chicago: Impacts of a Zoning Reform on Property Values and Housing Construction" by Yonah Freemark, UAR 56(3), 2020.

🥁🥁🥁We're thrilled to share the first of four contributions written by PhD students who were awarded UAR's inaugural graduate student essay prize. Up first: from Yetimoni Kpeebi, "Homelessness as America's 'New Urban Crisis'" www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

"The Making of Gangnam: Social Construction and Identity of Urban Place in South Korea" by Yooil Bae and Yu-Min Joo, UAR 56(3), 2020.

"Postdisaster Politics: New Lessons from New Orleans" by Robert S. Montjoy and Edward E. Chervenak, UAR 56(3), 2020.

"Arguing over Transportation Sales Taxes: An Analysis of Equity Debates in Transportation Ballot Measures" by Jaimee Lederman, Anne Brown, Brian D. Taylor, and Martin Wachs, UAR 56(2), 2020.

"Restructuring Restaurant Work: Employer Responses to Local Labor Standards in the Full-Service Restaurant Industry" by T. William Lester, UAR 56(2), 2020.

"Are Millennials Coming to Town? Residential Location Choice of Young Adults" by Hyojung Lee, UAR 56(2), 2020.

"Political and Institutional Explanations for Increasing Re-municipalization" by Raymond Gradus and Tjerk Budding, UAR 56(2), 2020.

"Changing Neighborhoods and the Effect of U.S. Arts Institutions on Human Capital and Displacement Between 2000 and 2010" by Justin Reeves Meyer, UAR 56(2), 2020.

"Fiscal Secession: An Analysis of Special Assessment Financing in California" by Mathew D. McCubbins and Ellen C. Seljan, UAR 56(2), 2020.

"Employer Responses to a City-Level Minimum Wage Mandate: Early Evidence from Seattle" by Jennifer L. Romich, Scott W. Allard, Emmi E. Obara, Anne K. Althauser, and James H. Buszkiewicz, UAR 56(2), 2020.

"Predicting School Closures in an Era of Austerity: The Case of Chicago" by Rachel Weber, Stephanie Farmer, and Mary Donoghue, UAR 56(2), 2020.

"Order out of Chaos: The Case for a New Conceptualization of the Cross-Boundary Instruments of American Regionalism" by David Miller and Jen Nelles, UAR 56(1), 2020.

"Public Housing Participation in Superstorm Sandy Recovery: Living in a Differentiated State in Rockaway, Queens" by Leigh Graham, UAR 56(1), 2020.

"Putting Culture on the Map: Media Discourse and the Urban Growth Machine in Koreatown, Los Angeles" by Brady Collins, UAR 56(1), 2020.

"Reasonable Suspicion in the Eye of the Beholder: Routine Policing in Racially Different Disadvantaged Neighborhoods" by Shytierra Gaston and Rod K. Brunson, UAR 56(1), 2020.

"Light-Rail Investment in Seattle: Gentrification Pressures and Trends in Neighborhood Ethnoracial Composition" by Chris L. Hess, UAR 56(1), 2020.

"Voting Can Be Hard, Information Helps" by Melody Crowder-Meyer, Shana Kushner Gadarian, and Jessica Trounstine, UAR 56(1), 2020.

"Running Local: Gender Stereotyping and Female Candidates in Local Elections" by Nichole M. Bauer, UAR 56(1), 2020.

From Participation to Rollback: Executive Adaptation in Remunicipalized Water Governance flows.hypotheses.org/20926

Piece of professional news - my first official publication is now up on UAR's Online First and it's open access for anyone who wants to read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

NEW on UAR Forum! Read @cnbecker14.bsky.social "Gentrification and Rising Rents May Worsen Black Residents’ Views of Whites as a Group" online first www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

"Sanctuary Cities: Public Attitudes Toward Enforcement Collaboration Between Local Police and Federal Immigration Authorities" by Jason P. Casellas and Sophia Jordán Wallace, UAR 56(1), 2020.

"Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service" by Rebecca Goldstein, Michael W. Sances, and Hye Young You, UAR 56(1), 2020.

"Using the Internet to Recruit Respondents for Offline Interviews in Criminological Studies" by R.V. Gundur, UAR 55(6), 2019.

"Neighborhood Satisfaction: A Study of a Low-Income Urban Community" by Patricia Ciorici and Prentiss Dantzler, UAR 55(6), 2019.

"Shifting Agendas: Private Consultants and Public Planning Policy" by Orly Linovski, UAR 55(6), 2019.

"V. O. Key Goes Urban: Toward Understanding a Changing Political Order " by Clarence N. Stone, UAR 55(6), 2019.

"The Displacement Risks and Impacts of Hong Kong’s Nonindigenous Villagers: A Grounded Theory Analysis" by Bente Castro Campos, Kuei-Hsien Liao, and Edward Chung Yim Yiu, UAR 55(6), 2019.

"Urban(izing) University Strategic Planning: An Analysis of London and New York City" by Jean-Paul D. Addie, UAR 55(6), 2019.

"Race and Legislative Responsiveness in City Council Meetings" by Bai Linh Hoang, UAR 55(6), 2019.

"Racial/Ethnic Transition and Hierarchy Among Ascending Neighborhoods" by Ann Owens and Jennifer Candipan, UAR 55(6), 2019.

"Defending Gentrification as a Valid Collective Conception: Utilizing the Metanarrative of “Suburbia” as a Common Axis for the Diversity of Middle-Class Reurbanization Projects" by Miguel de Oliver, UAR 55(5), 2019.

"Racial Differentials in the Components of Population Change and Neighborhood Transitions in New York City, 1980–2010: The Distinct Role of Asian Net Inflows in the Age of Net Outflows of Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics" by Arun Peter Lobo, Ronald J. O. Flores, and Joseph J. Salvo, UAR 55(5), 2019.

"Urban Development and the Growth with Equity Framework: The National Football League Stadium in Downtown Los Angeles" by Leland Saito, UAR 55(5), 2019. journals.sagepub.com/share/F8JEWS...