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Eric Stokan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliate faculty in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He serves as Co-Director and faculty affiliate at the Metropolitan Governance and Management Transitions Lab (MGMT) at the Paul H. O’Neil School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington and is a faculty affiliate to the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review. His research focuses on explaining local government decision-making, particularly with respect to the factors impacting their ability to balance and achieve goals associated with economic development, community development, social equity, and environmental sustainability. To understand these decisions and impacts, his recent work makes use of a range of computational social science techniques to analyze textual and social media data.