survey experiment

Revalidating the mechanisms of reciprocity in collaborative networks

This paper conducts a behavioral experiment involving municipal policymakers to compare how social capital and risk aversion influence reciprocity behaviors in collaborative networks.

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.

Government trustworthiness and two-way coproduction: Paired experiments on citizens and policymakers

This paper conducts a paired of experiments on citizens and municipal policymakers to examine the impacts of trust in government on coproductioin in disaster resilience planning.

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.

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 has incited opposition towards Asian immigrants and reduced public blame attributed to the federal government.