Krcatovich, Erin
Erin Krcatovich is a Ph.D. candidate in American Politics and Public Policy. She began at Michigan State in 2006, after graduating with her BA in American Politics from Eastern Michigan University. Her research interests include urban politics, faith-based and secular nonprofit behavior, and public policy issues of morality and science. She was a 2007 Carnegie Graduate Fellow for the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at MSU and recipient of the 2010 Graduate Office Fellowship Teaching Award.
Erin's dissertation, Tracing the Roots of Charitable Choice, focuses on Charitable Choice, a provision of the comprehensive package of welfare reform in 1996. She argues that this is a concrete example of the federal government attempting to directly shape who participates in local governing regimes, particularly in the areas of housing, service delivery, and community and economic development. Her work utilizes a unique dataset of news stories as well as interviews with elites in the cities of Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
American Politics and Public Policy
Expected Completion: 2012
231 S. Kedzie
Committee: Dr. Richard Hula, Dr. Laura Reese, and Dr. Joshua Sapotichne
