As an invited speaker, ISTPP Research Scientist and Assistant Director, Xinsheng Liu, participated in the International Symposium on Governance Innovation: Theory and Practice. Peking University and Columbia University organized the symposium, which was held in Beijing, October 19-21, 2016. Dr. Liu presented his research on bureaucracy and policy making. He was also commentator for the […]
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ISTPP Welcomes New Research Fellow
ISTPP welcomes Dr. Gabriel Eckstein as a Research Fellow. Dr. Eckstein is a Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University School of Law and serves as a faculty member of the Texas A&M Water Management and Hydrological Science Graduate Faculty as well as the Texas A&M Energy Institute. He researches water, natural resources, and […]
Bush School Researchers Report Public Opinion Findings on Water, Energy, and Food Issues
Water, energy and food (WEF) are three interconnected pillars of daily life. Energy cannot be produced without using water. Water cannot be provided without using energy. And food cannot be grown without energy and water. A team of researchers from the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP) at the Bush School of Government […]
ISTPP Research on Energy Knowledge and Risk Perceptions Published in Energy Policy
ISTPP Senior Research Fellow James Stoutenborough and Director Arnold Vedlitz have published their exploration of how levels of understanding of specific energy technologies may produce different assessments of the risks of those technologies. Using results from a large, national random survey of US adults conducted by ISTPP, the researchers examine the knowledge/information deficit model, which […]
Dr. Liu and Dr. Vedlitz Publish in Governance
Xinsheng Liu, ISTPP Assistant Director and Research Scientist, Arnold Vedlitz, Professor and ISTPP Distinguished Research Scholar, along with Institute Research Fellow James Stoutenborough, have published their research paper, “Bureaucratic Expertise, Overconfidence, and Policy Choice,” in Governance. This study is the first to theoretically and empirically examine whether experienced bureaucrats are prone to overconfidence in estimating their […]
ISTPP Fellow Bryan Jones Delivers Keynote Speech to International Conference on Public Policy; ISTPP Assistant Director Xinsheng Liu Presents Research at the Conference
ISTPP Senior Fellow, Bryan D. Jones (photo, on right), Professor of the Department of Government and J. J. “Jake” Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, delivered a keynote speech “Public Policy and Human Nature in an Increasingly Complex World” to the International Public Policy Association Conference in Hong […]
Bush School ISTPP Welcomes New Research Fellows
Dr. Chiu is a professor in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences at Texas A&M University. His research expertise includes quantitative health risk assessment, dose-response assessment, and statistical modeling of environmental and biological systems. Dr. Chiu’s current interests focus on developing computational and statistical methods to transform data into knowledge to inform policies protecting public […]
ISTPP’s Hannibal Presents Research at American Sociological Association Conference
Bryce Hannibal, ISTPP post-doctoral research associate, presented several papers at the American Sociological Association annual conference held in Seattle, WA August 20-23, 2016. Both papers are based on ISTPP’s national representative public opinion survey on the water-energy-food nexus (May 2015). The first paper, “Cognitive Awareness of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the US: Public Attitudes among […]
ISTPP Director Portney Studies the Effect of Local Tea Parties on City Sustainability Policies
Dr. Portney and his co-author, Dr. Jeffrey Berry, have analyzed the influence of local Tea Parties efforts to block sustainability initiatives by cities. To ascertain the impact of such Tea Party actions, the researchers relied on several sources of data. One data set came from previous research by Portney in which he compiled comprehensive information […]
ISTPP’s Hannibal, Liu, and Vedlitz Publish in Environmental Sociology
ISTPP Researchers Bryce Hannibal, Xinsheng Liu, and Arnold Vedlitz extend our understanding of factors that influence an individual’s environmental concern. They do so by incorporating local environmental conditions into the traditional models that rely only on personal characteristics as explanatory variables of environmental concern. The research team tests their model of environmental concern using data […]
