Binita Mahato

Biographic Data

ID5986522
NAMEBinita Mahato
GIVEN NAMESBinita
FAMILY NAMEMahato
SIGNATUREMAHATO B
AFFILIATIONSAuburn University
ORCID0000-0002-2716-0130
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Regional Disparities and Risk Factors in US Drinking Water Violations

    Open AccessBinita Mahato, Xi Chen et al.ARTICLESocial Science Quarterly2026

    Objective High‐profile cases such as the 2022 drinking water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, along with numerous ongoing wastewater violations in Alabama and elsewhere, raise persistent environmental justice concerns. Despite nearly $40 billion allocated for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure under the 2021 Infrastructure Act, states vary in their ability and willingness to serve historically underserved communities. This study aims to …

  • Grassroots organization and informal economy

    Open AccessBinita Mahato, Arindam Roy et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2024References: 29

  • Drilling Setbacks vs Government Takings

    Jonathan M Fisk, Joseph A Aistrup et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2023References: 15

    State policymaking is at the center of many oil and gas related disputes. Driven by the promise of affordable energy, economic development, and new revenues, supporters of oil and gas have pushed for policies designed to nurture the oil and gas industry, whereas opponents have emphasized a myriad of environmental threats and disruptions. Statewide ballot initiatives related to oil gas extraction offer a particularly useful lens to examine the pre…

  • The 1990s party realignment of U.S. presidential elections

    Open AccessJoseph A Aistrup, Binita Mahato et al.ARTICLESocial Science Quarterly2023Cited by: 2References: 41

    Introduction This paper addresses the issue of partisan polarization in the U.S. in presidential voting at the county level. The literature on the growing partisan sorting and/or polarization is extensive, and controversies are pervasive. This paper focuses on the timing and sequence of changes in partisan vote shares at the county level from 1952 through the 2020 election. Methods We apply confirmatory factor analysis to identify the structures …

  • Planning, Civil Rights, and African American Voting

    Open AccessBinita Mahato, Rebecca Retzlaff et al.ARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…2022References: 3

    This paper explores the link between African American civil rights activism and city planning before the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Using historical and spatial analyses, we discern the relationship between civil rights activism and leadership, voter registration, and city planning in Montgomery, Alabama, concluding—planning and African American activism and voting coevolved—with three distinct periods of planning and civil rights activism. The arti…

  • Public places urban spaces

    Binita MahatoARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2022

  • Spatial dynamics of long-term urban retail decline in three transatlantic cities

    Open AccessConrad Kickert, Rainer vom Hofe et al.ARTICLECities2020Cited by: 1References: 23

  • Who cleans the park? Public work and urban governance in New York City , by John Krinsky and Maud Simonet

    Binita MahatoARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2018

    "Who cleans the park? Public work and urban governance in New York City, by John Krinsky and Maud Simonet." Journal of Urban Affairs, 40(8), pp. 1193–1194