Publications

Public Trust and Collaborative Governance: An Instrumental Variable Approach

This research investigates the effects of trust in government on citizens’ perceptions of collaborative governance. To overcome endogeneity of measuring trust in traditional surveys, I proposed an …

Yixin Liu

Public Trust and Collaborative Governance: An Instrumental Variable Approach

De-stereotyping Public Performance Evaluation

Experimental evidence suggests that citizens’ judgments of service quality often rely on prior beliefs about providers’ characteristics, such as racial stereotypes. Such a biased judgment process …

Yixin Liu, Chengxin Xu

De-stereotyping Public Performance Evaluation

The Effectiveness of Network Administrative Organizations in Governing Inter-jurisdictional Natural Resources

Can network administrative organizations (NAOs) improve networks’ ability to solve complex social and environmental problems? This is a classical question in collaborative governance. The public …

Yixin Liu, Chao Tan

The Effectiveness of Network Administrative Organizations in Governing Inter-jurisdictional Natural Resources

Does Mislabeling COVID-19 Elicit the Perception of Threat and Reduce Blame?

Associating a life-threatening crisis with a geographic locality can stigmatize people from that area. However, such a strategy may reduce the public blame attributed to the government because the …

Chengxin Xu, Yixin Liu

Does Mislabeling COVID-19 Elicit the Perception of Threat and Reduce Blame?