“A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice: Issue Image, Issue Association, and Policy Support of Power Plants,” a paper by ISTPP researchers Dr. Xinsheng Liu and Dr. Arnold Vedlitz and ISTPP Research Fellow Dr. Scott Robinson has been accepted for publication by Policy Studies Journal. It is available in early view (DOI: 10.1111/psj.12233). In this paper, […]
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Dr. Portney Gives Invited Talk at Ostrom Workshop
Dr. Portney, ISTPP Director, shared his research, “Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Solving a Common-Pool Resource Challenge?” with participants of the Ostrom Workshop Colloquium Series at Indiana University. As the invited speaker for the November 13, 2017 workshop, Dr. Portney discussed how emerging natural system research has documented connections between water, energy, and food with an […]
ISTPP Director Portney Leads Study on the Link Between Sustainable Cities and Healthy Cities
In their study, “Sustainable Cities and Healthy Cities: Are They the Same?”, Dr. Kent Portney, Director of ISTPP, and Dr. Garett Sansom, Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainable Communities, fill a critical gap in the literature on the relationship between sustainability policies and health outcomes. Researchers have theorized that a positive correlation exists between these two […]
Bush School provides important “human dimensions” in new PATHS-UP Center
The Bush School of Government and Public Service has recently partnered with the Texas A&M University College of Engineering and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) on a new National Science Foundation funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) on Texas A&M’s campus. While some might see a public policy school’s involvement with an engineering research […]
Dr. Portney, ISTPP Director, Researches the Soil-Water-Food Nexus
Dr. Portney recently authored a chapter in the book, Global Soil Security, in which he reported his research on people’s awareness of the agriculture-water nexus. Utilizing data collected from the 2013 National Public Water Survey, conducted by ISTPP, Portney analyzes the relative strength of this awareness and the influence of such on support for actions and policies. […]
ISTPP Researchers Switzer and Vedlitz Publish in Environment & Behavior
David Switzer, ISTPP Predoctoral Research Fellow, and Arnold Vedlitz, Professor and ISTPP Distinguished Research Scholar, have published their research on how worldviews condition the way individuals process information about their local environment. The authors hypothesize that people will have higher perceptions of risk and greater preferences for policy when observed local conditions conform to their […]
ISTPP Fellows Bullock and Bowman Explore Support of Food, Energy, Water Nexus
Drs. Bullock and Bowman recently published an article in Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy titled, “FEW: Exploring Citizens’ Support for Policy Tools at the Food, Energy, Water Nexus,” where they seek to understand public preferences on food, energy, water nexus policy actions, and the factors that go into such preferences. They emphasize that limited research has been […]
Dr. Xinsheng Liu Receives PESCA Funding on Digital Divide and Health Disparities
ISTPP Research Scientist and Assistant Director Xinsheng Liu, along with Dr. Alicia Yan Hong (School of Public Health, TAMU) and Dr. Huiyan Sang (Department of Statistics, TAMU), received PESCA funding in the amount of $25,000 to support their research project, “The Trend of Digital Divide and Health Disparities in US: A Longitudinal Study of eHealth […]
Research by Drs. Bowman, Portney, and Berry Presented at 2017 SPSA Conference
Dr. Kent Portney, ISTPP Director, presented research on the relationships between measures of multilevel governance and the pursuit of sustainability by large US cities at the recently concluded SPSA conference. The research team investigates this relationship using data from a survey of city administrators in 50 of the largest cities in the US to measure […]