Jordan Wong

Abstract Do selection methods for public officials impact how they represent their constituents? Municipal clerks in the New England states offer an ideal case to examine this question. As key government actors in full-service local governments with minimal overlapping jurisdictions, clerks in these states vary in how they are selected—either through election or appointment.

ForumVolume 37, Issue 1p7-11 1Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 2Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA 3Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada 4Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada 5Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada 6Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia,...