because I persisted with this line of research in my dissertation (and to today) working with Michigan residents whose cities were taken over by the state, who have been warning since at least 2011 they were the testing ground for a larger antidemocrati…
disrupting institutional memory, firing staff, destroying records, getting control over workflows, and writing new contracts, all meant the official “end” of EM in Benton Harbor in 2014 was not its true end, as a city commissioner told me. www.cambridge.o…
Might I recommend my wife @louiseseamster.bsky.social’s work (and forthcoming book) on this problem. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
RP @louiseseamster.bsky.social: from my 2018 article "When Democracy Disappears," a prescient title suggested by @victorerikray.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...