Manny Teodoro is Robert & Sylvia Wagner Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government (2022, with Samantha Zuhlke and David Switer) and Bureaucratic Ambition: Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator (2011).