ISTPP News

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 […]

Dr. Bryce Hannibal, ISTPP Assistant Research Scientist, gave an invited talk, “Examining the Mediating influence of Interlocking Board Networks on Grant Making in Public Foundations,” to the MPA faculty at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah on April 5, 2018. This paper is co-authored with Dr. Laurie Paarlberg from the Bush School and Dr. Jasmin […]

ISTPP collaborated with the Program in Natural Resources Systems in the Texas A&M University School of Law and the Texas Water Resources Institute to study the complexity of the governance structure that oversees the up to 15 transboundary aquifers along the Texas-Mexico border. The resulting report, “Survey of Legal Mechanisms Relating to Groundwater Along the […]

Dr. Bryce Hannibal of ISTPP has been appointed to a three-year term as a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Communities (IfSC) at Texas A&M University. IfSC brings together scholars from across A&M to collaborate on interdisciplinary research, engagement, and high impact service learning. IfSC’s Fellows program recognizes scholars who have made notable and valuable […]

Dr. Hannibal, ISTPP Assistant Research Scientist, was invited to participate in the development of SESYNC’s Data to Motivate Synthesis project at the University of Maryland at Annapolis in August. The purpose of this workshop is to gain insight on research methods, focusing on the food-energy-water nexus. While the outcomes and next steps are not publicly […]

Dr. Manuel Teodoro, an ISTPP Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Seung-Ho An, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, recently published a paper titled “Citizen-Based Brand Equity: A Model and Experimental Evaluation” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Adapting a model from commercial marketing, Teodoro […]

Dr. Kent E. Portney and Dr. Ann Bowman have been awarded one of the first “Texas A&M Triads for Transformation,” or T3 grants, along with Dr. Sierra Woodruff in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. T3 is a multidisciplinary program that provides funding of $30,000 to groups of three faculty members (triads) in […]

ISTPP’s Dr. Bryce Hannibal recently published a paper titled “Citizens’ Decision-Making Frameworks on Climate Change Policy Preferences” with Dr. Tabitha Morton from Prairie View A&M University in the Journal of Social Science for Policy Implications. The authors examine knowledge and emotional effects on citizens’ climate change mitigation policy preferences. Analyzing data from ISTPP’s National Public Climate […]

Professor Kent Portney has been named to the Bob Bullock Chair of Public Policy and Finance at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Portney came to the Bush School in 2014 and was named director of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in 2016. As a member […]

Research by members of the ISTPP team, Drs. Portney, Hannibal, and Liu, was presented at the annual Southern Political Science Association Conference held in New Orleans, LA, January 4-6, 2018. Director Portney presented a paper co-authored with Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Hannibal, “Urban Governance and Sustainability through the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Evidence from the San Antonio […]