I am interested in how governments can be democratic given their (necessary? inevitable?) entanglements with capitalism. For me, public authorities are where this tension between democracy and government political and financial viability are most pronounced.

Refereed Articles

Wen, C., Marcello, E.M., Warner, M.E. The fiscal impact of tax abatements on New York’s school districts. Journal of Urban Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2025.2452552

Marcello, E. M. (2023). When Cities Borrow State Power: New York State’s Empire State Development Corporation in New York City. Urban Affairs Review, 59(2), 506–533. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874211067141

Williams, S., Marcello, E., & Klopp, J. M. (2014). Toward Open Source Kenya: Creating and Sharing a GIS Database of Nairobi. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(1), 114–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2013.846157

Klopp, J. M., Marcello, E. M., Kirui, G., & Mwangi, H. (2013). Negotiating e-politics: Initiating e-government in a municipal council in Kenya. Information Polity, 18(1), 21–42. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130294

Book Reviews

Marcello, E.M. and Radford, G. (2023). Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York, by Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles. Gotham Center for New York City History. https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/mobilizing-the-metropolis-review

Marcello, E. M. (2020). How states shaped postwar America: State government and urban power, by Nicholas Dagen Bloom. Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(7), 1098–1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2020.1727261

Other Publications

Policy paper: “Open ESD: Increasing the Transparency and Accountability of Empire State Development” (2023). Reinvent Albany. https://reinventalbany.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Reinvent-Albany-Open-ESD-Report-July-2023-1.pdf

Encyclopedia entry: “Philadelphia Regional Port Authority” in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/philadelphia-regional-port-authority/

Doctoral dissertation: “State Public Authorities, Local Politics, and Democratic Planning: New York’s Empire State Development Corporation” (2020). https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-15fb-v524