Faculty

Bonnie J. Johnson
Assistant Professor

Teaching and Research Interests

Civic bureaucracy, transportation and land use policy, community visioning processes, deliberative democracy, public participation in government, and competitive elections.

• Urban Planning

• M.A., Political Science, University of Kansas, 1992
• M.U.P., Urban Planning, University of Kansas, 1994
• Ph.D., Political Science, University of Kansas, 2006
  Dissertation - Civic Bureaucracy: An Affirmative Role for City Planners in Building Civic Capital and Representing Communities

• UBPL 730 - Introduction to Land Use Planning
• UBPL 735 - Site Planning
• UBPL 750 - Introduction to Transportation Planning
• UBPL 802 - Politics and Planning
  

Johnson, B. J. 2005. Identities of Competitive States in U.S. Presidential Elections: Electoral College Bias or Candidate-Centered Politics? Publius: The Journal of Federalism 35 (2): 337-355.

Johnson, B. J. 2003. Implementing Sustainability in Smaller Communities:
Sustainability Frames the Debate. In Strategies for Safe and Sustainable Communities, edited by Landscape Architectural Registration Boards Foundation. Vienna, VA: Landscape Architectural Registration Boards Foundation.

I am active in my neighborhood and currently the president of the Indian Hills Neighborhood Association here in Lawrence.