Welcome New Members of the Editorial Board

• Published date: 01 March 2021
• Date: 01 March 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0160323X211025936
• Subject Matter: Welcome New Members of the Editorial Board

Welcome New Members of the Editorial Board

Welcome New Members of

the Editorial Board

As State and Local Government Review enters

its fifty third year, we welcome new members

to the editorial board. These individ ual volun-

teer their time to provide feedback to the edi-

tors and review manuscripts, while also

promoting the journal in academic and profes-

sional communities. Members of the editorial

board serve three year terms. We thank these

individuals, and our continuing board mem-

bers, for their service to the journal.

Christopher Alcantara is professor of

Political Science at The University of Western

Ontario. Much of his research examines i nter-

governmental cooperation between Indigenous

communities and the various levels of govern-

ment in Canada. He also writes about institu-

tional design and political behavior using a

variety of theoretical, conceptual, and metho-

dological approaches. He has published five

books and over forty-five journal articles, some

of which have won national and international

recognition, such as APSA’s Seymour Martin

Lipset Best Book Award, CPSA’s John

McMenemy Prize, and the J.E. Hodgetts Award

for best article in Canadian Public

Administration.

Gwen Arnold is an associate professor and

co-director for the Center for Environmental

Behavior at University of California-Davis.

Gwen’s research focuses on decision-making

by front-line government managers, both

within U.S. municipalities and within natural

resource agencies. She also studies diffusion

of policy innovations across sub-state jurisdic-

tions, federalism dynamics in the United States,

and how government officials use scientific

information in environmental management

choices. Substantively, her prior work focused

on wetland management, while her current

work focuses on high-volume hydraulic frac-

turing (widely known as “fracking”). Her

research methods include surveys, interviews,

social network analysis, content analysis, and

statistical modeling.

Thomas Elston is associate professor in

Public Administration at the Blava tnik School

of Government at the University of Oxford,

United Kingdom. His research focuses on the

organization of public services in established

democracies, and particularly on questions of

performance, resilience, reform and democratic

control. At the School, Thomas teaches classes

on political science and public management,

and conducts workshops for senior leaders on

strategy, organizational feedback and resili-

ence. Thomas also consults for a range of gov-

ernments in Europe and North America on

issues related to inter-organizational collabora-

tion, civil service performance and public sec-

tor reform. Dr. Elston has been appointed to a

second term on the editorial board.

Benedict S. Jimenez is an associate profes-

sor of Public Management and Policy in the

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at

Georgia State University. His teaching focuses

on public budgeting and finance, public man-

agement, and quantitative analysis. His

research examines the institutional, financial,

and management dimensions of state and local

public service provision. Specifically, he has

explored four distinct but inter-related areas

of inquiries: 1) How public management prac-

tices and processes (performance management,

strategic planning, decision processes and

structures) shape the capacity of state and local

governments to improve their fiscal health; 2)

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