In this episode, Prof. Katherine Willoughby asks Professors Whitney Afonso and Kimberly Nelson of the School of Government at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to dive into their study of the relationship between form of government and corruption in U.S. localities.  The professors use propensity score matching and other scoring methods to drown out the noise, generating strong proof that the council–manager form of local government reduces the risk of corruption. Their results support the professionalism–performance model of governance.

To learn more, you can read the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.13737.