Scott Robinson, associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, and the Bush School’s Executive Associate Dean Arnold Vedlitz have been awarded the 2014 Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award by the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Public Administration Section. Vedlitz and Robinson were honored for their paper entitled “Organizational Trust and Risk Communication: Trust in the […]
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Bush School ISTPP Researchers Published in Review of Policy Research
ISTPP Director Vedlitz, along with ISTPP Fellows Douglas Oxley and Sammy Zahran, and co-authors Jeremy Brooks and Charles Lindsey, have published their article, “Abnormal Daily Temperature and Concern about Climate Change Across the United States,” in Review of Policy Research. In this study, the researchers sought to examine the relationship of environmental conditions on attitudes toward […]
ISTPP Researchers Published in Policy Studies Journal
ISTPP Director Vedlitz, along with ISTPP Fellows B. Dan Woods and Douglas Oxley, have published their article, “The Effect of Persuasive Messages on Policy Problem Recognition,” in Policy Studies Journal. In this manuscript, the authors extend current theories about how individual behavior leads to policy recognition through an embedded experiment in a national survey. Specifically, they […]
ISTPP Research Presented at Western Political Science Association
Brian Shreck, ISTPP pre-doctoral research associate, presented a paper co-authored with ISTPP Director, Arnold Vedlitz, at the annual conference of the Western Political Science Association in Seattle, WA on April 18, 2014. Their paper, “In Defense of Informal Discussion as Deliberative Democracy,” uses data from a national public water policy survey to find which factors […]
ISTPP Research Presented at Midwest Political Science Association Conference
ISTPP researchers presented three papers at the Midwest Political Science Association conference in April. “Blurring the Lines of Scientific Objectivity in the Policy Process: Are Climate Skeptic Portrayals of Climate Scientists as Wild-Eyed Fanatics Accurate?” ISTPP Fellow James W. Stoutenborough presented research co-authored with Rebecca Bromley Trujillo and ISTTP Director Arnold Vedlitz. The authors examine […]
Vedlitz to Co-direct Community Outreach Engagement Core (COEC) on Environmental Health
Dr. Arnie Vedlitz, executive associate dean of the Bush School and director of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy, will serve as co-director of the Community Outreach Engagement Core (COEC) for the Center for Translational Environmental Health Research (CTEHR) recently announced by Texas A&M University. The CTEHR was named by the National Institutes […]
ISTPP Fellow and Director Published in Environmental Science & Policy
James W. Stoutenborough, Assistant Professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville and ISTPP Fellow, along with Arnold Vedlitz, ISTPP Director, have published in Environmental Science & Policy. Based on results from a national public survey conducted as part of funding awarded by NOAA, the authors analyze two measures of knowledge about climate change – perceived knowledge […]
ISTPP Director Published in Politics, Groups, and Identities
Arnold Vedlitz along with his co-authors, including ISTPP Fellow James Stoutenborough, have published their article, “Climate Scientists and Environmental Interest Groups: The Intersection of Expertise and Advocacy” in Politics, Groups, and Identities. In the article, the authors examine the advocacy role of climate change scientists using interest group theory. The authors expected that scientists who express […]
ISTPP Fellow and Director Published in Water Resources Management
James W. Stoutenborough and Arnold Vedlitz have just had their article, “Public Attitudes towards Water Management and Drought in the United States” made available online by Water Resources Management. In the article, the ISTPP researchers explore public attitudes and concern for drought issues and their risk assessment and support for various policy options for water management […]
Dr. Xinsheng Liu Attends Beijing Forum and Presents Research Co-authored with Dr. Ren Mu
Dr. Liu attended the Beijing Forum 2013 in China and presented research co-authored with Dr. Ren Mu, entitled “Chinese Public Concerns for Environmental Protection: Evidence from National Survey Data.” This research employs national representative public survey data and recent province-level statistics to analyze and explain Chinese citizen’s concerns for environmental protection in China. Using a […]