Who represents residents in urban neighborhoods when key decisions are made on their behalf, such as how money is spent on redevelopment? One would think the representatives would be the neighborhood’s elected leaders: the mayor, city council members, and state legislators whom the residents have elected to speak for them. New research by Jeremy Levine, assistant professor of organization studies at the University of Michigan, suggests we should look beyond elected politicians. He finds that…

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