Xinsheng Liu
Senior Research Scholar and Research Scientist
Phone: (979) 845-4120
ALLN 3025
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Dr. Liu’s academic interests include public policy, public administration, environmental politics and policy, public opinion and participation, risk analysis and management, and comparative governance. His research primarily focuses on examining how individual and collective policy actors (e.g., citizens, communities, governments) define public problems, perceive risks, and set policy agendas and decision priorities in political and policy processes.
With extensive experience in large scale public survey, quantitative content analysis, experimental design, and field study, Dr. Liu has employed social science theories and statistical methods to address scholarly and applied topics in areas of global warming and climate change, environmental and natural resources, emerging science and technology, public safety and security, and comparative politics and governance.
His research has appeared in peer-referred journals, including Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Management Review, Public Administration, Review of Policy Research, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Risk Analysis, Journal of Risk Research, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Science and Policy, Climatic Change, Journal of Contemporary China, and China Quarterly. He is author of the book Modeling Bilateral International Relations (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006).
Dr. Liu currently serves the editorial board of Policy Studies Journal. He is also a reviewer for numerous journals in political science, public policy, public administration, risk management, and environmental and natural resources studies.
Prior to joining the Bush School in 2003, Dr. Liu was a faculty member at Peking University and the University of Washington, Bothell. He earned a PhD in political science from Texas A&M University, and received his MA and BA in political science and public administration from Peking University. He served as Associate Director of the Public Administration and Policy Program in the Department of Political Science of Peking University from 1991 to 1993, and Assistant Director of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Bush School of Texas A&M University from 2013 to 2019.
