Dr. Xinsheng Liu, ISTPP Senior Research Scholar and Research Scientist, and Dr. Youlang Zhang, ISTPP Research Fellow and Professor at Renmin University of China, have published “How Does a Focusing Event Shape Public Opinion? Natural Experimental Evidence from the Orlando Mass Shooting,” in the Policy Studies Journal. The authors reconceptualize the multiple layers of public […]
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ISTPP Researchers Publish in Environmental Politics
Environmental Politics, one of the top political science journals, has published “Tainted Trust: Air Pollution and Political Trust in China,” a study co-authored by Drs. Xinsheng Liu (ISTPP Senior Research Scholar and Research Scientist), Youlang Zhang (ISTPP Research Follow and Professor at Renmin University of China), Taiping Ding (Postdoctoral Researcher Sun Yat-sen University and former […]
Dr. Xinsheng Liu Presents ISTPP Research at Conference and Invited Talks
Dr. Xinsheng Liu, ISTPP Senior Research Scholar and Research Scientist, attended the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in Philadelphia from September 4-8, 2024. During the conference, he presented a research paper titled “Threat Perception, Issue Knowledge, and Public Coproduction Preferences” to the APSA Panel: Renovating Democracy through Addressing Environmental Justice. […]
Drs. Mu and Liu Publish in Economics Letters
Dr. Ren Mu (Robert H. and Judy L. Allen Professor of the Department of International Affairs of the Bush School and ISTPP Research Fellow) and Dr. Xinsheng Liu (ISTPP Senior Research Scholar and Research Scientist) published an article entitled “Perceived Returns to College Education by Ethnicity: Evidence from China” in Economics Letters. In this study, […]
ISTPP Researchers Publish in Urban Informatics
Dr. Rotem Dvir, Assistant Research Scientist, ISTPP Director Dr. Arnold Vedlitz, and ISTPP Fellows Dr. Xinyue Ye published a paper about environmental hazards risk perceptions in the journal Urban Informatics (Worried (and) sick: how environmental hazards affect Americans’ health-related risk attitudes). The study, conducted as part of the Texas Center for Environmental Health Research (funded in […]
ISTPP Welcomes New Research Fellows
The Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP) at the Bush School of Government & Public Service has named new researchers to its Fellows program – Dr. Natalie Johnson, Professor Felix Mormann, and Dr. Renyi Zhang. Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Toxicology in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at […]
Texas A&M’s Dara Wald Named 2024 Carnegie Fellow
Dr. Dara Wald has been named to the 2024 class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Wald is a tenured Texas A&M University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications. She is also a research fellow at the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy. “This […]
ISTPP Research Team Publishes in Review of Policy Research
Public trust in government agencies affects the formation of public opinion about public policy issues. This association between trust and public support for policy development in emergent biotechnologies, such as gene drive, needs to be better understood. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency […]
ISTPP Research Team Publishes in Policy Studies
Dr. Ki Eun Kang, ISTPP Fellow, and ISTPP Director Dr. Arnold Vedlitz, has published a paper about public-private partnerships (PPPs) in policy studies. Their work, based on an NSF-funded research project, aimed to understand how the general public views different PPP options and arrangements. This perspective is particularly vital, as public opinion plays a crucial […]
ISTPP Research Team Publishes in Sociological Spectrum
Drs. Hwang, Bixler, Brown and Vedlitz’s study, titled “How to activate nonprofit beneficiaries for community resilience? Examining the role of risk perception and evaluation of nonprofit services on prosocial behavior in the context of natural hazards,” looks at factors that prompt individuals who have received assistance to co-produce with nonprofits. The nonprofit’s responsiveness and service satisfaction significantly impact beneficiary volunteerism […]
