Dr. Xinsheng Liu, ISTPP Research Scientist and Assistant Director, presented the research paper “Bureaucratic Influence in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Evidence from Congressional Hearings on Global Warming and Climate Change” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 5-8, 2018.
This paper, coauthored with Dr. Bryce Hannibal (ISTPP Assistant Research Scientist) and Dr. Arnold Vedlitz (ISTPP Director Emeritus and Distinguished Research Scholar), offers theoretical expectations, new empirical measures, and robust evidence for federal bureaucrats’ dominant participation, widespread presence, and central role in congressional hearings on global warming and climate change.
