Quinton Mayne

Quinton Mayne is Senior Director of Research at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. In this role, Quinton provides strategic and operational leadership for the Center’s research agenda and directs the research team of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative.

Quinton has longstanding research interests in comparative political behavior and subnational and urban politics, with recent work examining the organizational capabilities of city governments and city leadership. Prior to joining the Bloomberg Center for Cities, he was Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Quinton holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University and has published widely in leading political science and public policy journals, including Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, the International Political Science Review, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Politics and Governance, Political Research Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, and West European Politics.

Recent Publications

Matthew Lee, Quinton Mayne, Jorrit de Jong (2025). An Exploratory Study of Mayoral Transition Work. Public Administration Review.

Jorrit de Jong, Fernando Fernandez-Monge, Quinton Mayne, and Nick Vachon (2025). The Data-Informed City: A Conceptual Framework for Advancing Research and Practice. Information Polity.

Alexia Katsanidou and Quinton Mayne (2024). Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization? Journal of European Public Policy.

Quinton Mayne and Troy Saghaug Broderstad (2024). Conditional satisfaction: political support, congruence, and cabinet composition. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.