Publication

Reward exploitation or exploration? The effects of local government sustainability strategies and performance information on citizen evaluation

This survey experiment finds that citizens evaluate government sustainability performance more favorably when it results from established policies (exploitation) rather than pioneering initiatives (exploration).

Partisan collaboration in policy adoption: An experimental study with local government officials

This paper uses a conjoint experiment involving U.S. municipal officials to test the co-partisanship effect on policy collaboration.

All hands on deck: The role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals

This paper combines the difference-in-differences (DiD) methods and content analysis to examine the effectiveness of collaborative platforms in supporting local collaborations for natural resource management.

How and when democratic values matter: Challenging the effectiveness-centric framework in program evaluation

Using a conjoint experiment, this research compare the effects of effectiveness and democratic values in predicting public program evaluation, conditioned on citizens’ trust in government.

Public trust and collaborative governance: An instrumental variable approach

This research utilizes public integrity information, randomly assigned as the instrumental variable, to explore the impact of trust in government on citizens’ perceptions of collaborative governance.

The effectiveness of network administrative organizations in governing inter-jurisdictional natural resources

This paper uses the synthetic control method, incorporating monthly water quality data from 14 river monitoring sites in two neighboring cities, to examine the effectiveness of the Network Administrative Organization (NAO) model in reducing water pollution.

De-stereotyping public performance evaluation

This paper employs a series of experiments to examine the relationship between performance information and the evaluation mode, suggesting that presenting information jointly (joint evaluation), rather than separately (separate evaluation), may assist people in avoiding stereotyping and focusing on actual performance.

Does mislabeling COVID-19 elicit the perception of threat and reduce blame?

This paper employs a list experiment to examine whether mislabeling COVID-19 as the ‘Chinese Virus’ has incited opposition towards Chinese immigrants and reduced public blame attributed to the federal government.