Kathryn A Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn A Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9812-409X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An analysis of national flood insurance program pricing in New York State
Flooding is a major risk to human health and wellbeing and is an important cause and consequence of population redistribution. After decades of concern about outdated risk assessments and actuarially unsound pricing structures, in 2021 the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) implemented a new methodology for risk-rating—the translation of estimated flood risk into insurance premiums—with the aim of aligning premiums with risk-based prici…
Building a future in place
This article examines the present conjuncture of state violence and environmental-economic crisis through the prism of global racial capitalism. Bridging recent scholarship in abolition ecology and critical development studies, we engage the tension between the uniqueness and interconnectedness of place within the context of global freedom struggles. We argue that building a future in place begins with an extraverted sense of place as ecologicall…
The demographic future of migration is African
The World Development Report 2023 (WDR, 2023) highlights the profound demographic forces that contribute to growing levels of international migration. This includes the rapid ageing of populations and workforces in higher-income countries that produce heightened demand for foreign workers, paired with sustained population growth and youthful age structures in low-income countries where emigration can serve as a release valve on population growth.…
Race and Ethnicity Differences in Police Contact and Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward the Police Among Youth
While investigations examining the effects of direct and vicarious police stops on youth attitudes toward the police have been limited, even less research has explored how these processes vary by race/ethnicity. Thus, this study uses the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine how race/ethnicity shapes: (1) the relationship between direct and vicarious police stops and youth attitudes toward police and (2) how the contextual…
Health and well-being outcomes of women and children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Reframing Regional Governance for Research and Practice
The article proposes a framework to clarify and specify regional governance, a concept widely used but as yet inadequately formulated for research and practice. Using capacity and purpose rather than governance or governmental forms as a foundation, the framework identifies five dimensions—actor group, agenda, internal capacity, external capacity, and implementation experience—that together describe regional governance for a time, place, and poli…
Metropolitan Governance Structure and Income Growth
There has long been debate on the extent to which the structure of government in metropolitan areas helps or hinders income growth. Polycentrists contend that numerous local governments lead to competition that streamlines government, produces services at least cost, and leads to higher incomes. Centristts argue that large, multiple service governments have scale economies leading to more efficient production of services and hence higher incomes.…
Regional Impulses
Spurred by fiscal pressure, persistent city-suburban disparities, and the imperatives of the global economy, public and academic interest in metropolitan regionalism is as vigorous now as it was in the 1950s. The resurgence of interest compels analysis in this article of 10 regional impulses—natural resource, macroeconomic, centrality, growth, social, fiscal, equity, political, legal, and historical—the operation of which determine regional outco…
Specialization in Government
Relatively little is known about the remarkable increase in the use of special districts for urban service delivery. The author assesses the utility of four alternative theoretical perspectives on the uneven use of districts in metropolitan areas. Empirical analysis of district patterns in more than 300 metropolitan areas in 1987 reveals multiple influences on district use. Local government structure and legal factors emphasized by institutional-…
Exploring the links between political structure and metropolitan growth
Metropolitan Governance Structure and Income Growth
There has long been debate on the extent to which the structure of government in metropolitan areas helps or hinders income growth. Polycentrists contend that numerous local governments lead to competition that streamlines government, produces services at least cost, and leads to higher incomes. Centristts argue that large, multiple service governments have scale economies leading to more efficient production of services and hence higher incomes.…
Reframing Regional Governance for Research and Practice
The article proposes a framework to clarify and specify regional governance, a concept widely used but as yet inadequately formulated for research and practice. Using capacity and purpose rather than governance or governmental forms as a foundation, the framework identifies five dimensions—actor group, agenda, internal capacity, external capacity, and implementation experience—that together describe regional governance for a time, place, and poli…
Specialization in Government
Relatively little is known about the remarkable increase in the use of special districts for urban service delivery. The author assesses the utility of four alternative theoretical perspectives on the uneven use of districts in metropolitan areas. Empirical analysis of district patterns in more than 300 metropolitan areas in 1987 reveals multiple influences on district use. Local government structure and legal factors emphasized by institutional-…
Regional Impulses
Spurred by fiscal pressure, persistent city-suburban disparities, and the imperatives of the global economy, public and academic interest in metropolitan regionalism is as vigorous now as it was in the 1950s. The resurgence of interest compels analysis in this article of 10 regional impulses—natural resource, macroeconomic, centrality, growth, social, fiscal, equity, political, legal, and historical—the operation of which determine regional outco…
Exploring the links between political structure and metropolitan growth
The demographic future of migration is African
The World Development Report 2023 (WDR, 2023) highlights the profound demographic forces that contribute to growing levels of international migration. This includes the rapid ageing of populations and workforces in higher-income countries that produce heightened demand for foreign workers, paired with sustained population growth and youthful age structures in low-income countries where emigration can serve as a release valve on population growth.…
Exploring the links between political structure and metropolitan growth
Specialization in Government
Relatively little is known about the remarkable increase in the use of special districts for urban service delivery. The author assesses the utility of four alternative theoretical perspectives on the uneven use of districts in metropolitan areas. Empirical analysis of district patterns in more than 300 metropolitan areas in 1987 reveals multiple influences on district use. Local government structure and legal factors emphasized by institutional-…
Regional Impulses
Spurred by fiscal pressure, persistent city-suburban disparities, and the imperatives of the global economy, public and academic interest in metropolitan regionalism is as vigorous now as it was in the 1950s. The resurgence of interest compels analysis in this article of 10 regional impulses—natural resource, macroeconomic, centrality, growth, social, fiscal, equity, political, legal, and historical—the operation of which determine regional outco…
Metropolitan Governance Structure and Income Growth
There has long been debate on the extent to which the structure of government in metropolitan areas helps or hinders income growth. Polycentrists contend that numerous local governments lead to competition that streamlines government, produces services at least cost, and leads to higher incomes. Centristts argue that large, multiple service governments have scale economies leading to more efficient production of services and hence higher incomes.…
Reframing Regional Governance for Research and Practice
The article proposes a framework to clarify and specify regional governance, a concept widely used but as yet inadequately formulated for research and practice. Using capacity and purpose rather than governance or governmental forms as a foundation, the framework identifies five dimensions—actor group, agenda, internal capacity, external capacity, and implementation experience—that together describe regional governance for a time, place, and poli…
Health and well-being outcomes of women and children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Race and Ethnicity Differences in Police Contact and Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward the Police Among Youth
While investigations examining the effects of direct and vicarious police stops on youth attitudes toward the police have been limited, even less research has explored how these processes vary by race/ethnicity. Thus, this study uses the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine how race/ethnicity shapes: (1) the relationship between direct and vicarious police stops and youth attitudes toward police and (2) how the contextual…
The demographic future of migration is African
The World Development Report 2023 (WDR, 2023) highlights the profound demographic forces that contribute to growing levels of international migration. This includes the rapid ageing of populations and workforces in higher-income countries that produce heightened demand for foreign workers, paired with sustained population growth and youthful age structures in low-income countries where emigration can serve as a release valve on population growth.…
An analysis of national flood insurance program pricing in New York State
Flooding is a major risk to human health and wellbeing and is an important cause and consequence of population redistribution. After decades of concern about outdated risk assessments and actuarially unsound pricing structures, in 2021 the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) implemented a new methodology for risk-rating—the translation of estimated flood risk into insurance premiums—with the aim of aligning premiums with risk-based prici…
Building a future in place
This article examines the present conjuncture of state violence and environmental-economic crisis through the prism of global racial capitalism. Bridging recent scholarship in abolition ecology and critical development studies, we engage the tension between the uniqueness and interconnectedness of place within the context of global freedom struggles. We argue that building a future in place begins with an extraverted sense of place as ecologicall…
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Metropolitan area (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works)