• Public Policy and Public Administration
• Policy Processes and Policy Agendas
• Public Opinion and Participation
• Political Information Processing and Decision Making

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

• Dvir, Rotem, Xinsheng Liu, Arnold Vedlitz. 2023. “Exploring Public Participation Modes in Government: The Case of Infrastructure Policies,” Public Management Review, 1-22.
• Goldsmith, Carol L, Ki Eun Kang, Elizabeth Heitman, Zach N Adelman, Leah W Buchman, David Kerns, Xinsheng Liu, Raul F Medina, Arnold Vedlitz. 2022. “Stakeholder Views on Engagement, Trust, Performance, and Risk Considerations about Use of Gene drive Technology in Agricultural Pest Management,” Health Security 20(1): 6-15
• 劉桂英，劉新勝. 2022. “公共決策過程中常見認知偏差及其矯正措施: 一種行爲科學的視角,”《中國行政管理》 441(3): 82-89. [Liu, Guiying, and Xinsheng Liu. 2022. “Cognitive Biases and Corrective Measures in Public Policy Decision Making Process: A Behavioral Science Perspective,” Chinese Public Administration 441(3): 82-89]
• Liu, Xinsheng, Youlang Zhang, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2021. “Political Values and Life Satisfaction in China,” The China Quarterly 245:276-291.
• 丁太平，劉新勝， 劉桂英. 2021. “中國公衆環境治理參與羣體的分類及其影響,”《上海行政學院學報》 (1): 69-82. [Ding, Taiping, Xinsheng Liu, and Guiying Liu. 2021. “Classification and Influence of Participating Groups in China’s Public Environmental Governance,” Journal of Shanghai Administration Institute (1): 69-82]
• Liu, Xinsheng, Scott Robinson, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2020. “A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice: Issue Image, Issue Association, and Policy Support of Power Plants,” Policy Studies Journal 48(1): 11-37
• Youlang Zhang, Liu, Xinsheng, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2020. “Issue-specific Knowledge and Willingness to Coproduce: The Case of Public Security Services,” Public Management Review 22(10): 1464-1488
• Youlang Zhang, Xinsheng Liu, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2020. “How Social Capital Shapes Citizen Willingness to Co‐invest in Public Service: The Case of Flood Control,” Public Administration 98(3): 696-712
• Liu, Xinsheng, Feng Hao, Kent Portney, and Yinxi Liu. 2020. “Examining Public Concern about Global Warming and Climate Change in China,” The China Quarterly 242: 460-486
• Hao, Feng, Xinsheng Liu, and Jay L. Michaels. 2020. “Social Capital, Carbon Dependency, and Public Response to Climate Change in 22 European Countries,” Environmental Science & Policy 114: 64–72
• Liu, Xinsheng, Kent E. Portney, Jeryl L. Mumpower, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2019. “Terrorism Risk Assessment, Recollection Bias, and Public Support for Counterterrorism Policy and Spending,” Risk Analysis 39 (3): 553-570
• Liu, Xinsheng, Jeryl L. Mumpower, Kent E. Portney, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2019. “Perceived Risk of Terrorism and Policy Preferences for Government Counterterrorism Spending: Evidence from a U.S. National Panel Survey,” Risk, Hazard & Crisis in Public Policy 10(1): 102-135.
• Harmel, Robert, Yao-Yuan Yeh, and Xinsheng Liu. “Age vs. Socialization in Understanding Attitudes toward Economic Reforms in China,” Social Science Quarterly 100 (5): 1755-1767
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• Huang, Haifeng and Xinsheng Liu. 2018. “Historical Knowledge and National Identity: Experimental Evidence from China,” Research and Politics 5(3): 1-8
• Portney, Kent E., Bryce Hannibal, Carol Goldsmith, Peyton McGee, Xinsheng Liu, Arnold Vedlitz. 2018. “Awareness of the Food–Energy–Water Nexus and Public Policy Support in the United States: Public Attitudes among the American People,” Environment and Behavior 50(4): 375–400
• 布萊恩•瓊斯，劉新勝. 2018. “設計政治機制促進公共問題的解決,” 《北大政治學評論》12：16-26. [Jones, Bryan, and Xinsheng Liu. 2018. “Designing Political Institutions to Foster Problem Solving,” Peking University Political Science Review 2: 16-26]
• Liu, Xinsheng, James Stoutenborough and Arnold Vedlitz. “Bureaucratic Expertise, Overconfidence, and Policy Choice,” Governance 30(4): 705-725
• Liu, Xinsheng, Scott Robinson, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2016. “Public Problem Characterization, Policy Solution Generation, and Intra-agenda Connectivity,” Policy Studies Journal 44(4): 396–423
• Liu, Xinsheng and Ren Mu. 2016. “Public Environmental Concern in China: Determinants and Variations,” Global Environmental Change 37: 116–127
• Hannibal, Bryce, Liu, Xinsheng, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2016. “Personal Characteristics, Local Environmental Conditions, and Individual Environmental Concern: A Multilevel Analysis,” Environmental Sociology 2(3): 286-297
• Mumpower, Jeryl L., Liu, Xinsheng, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2016. “Psychometric and Demographic Predictors of Perceived Risk of Climate Change and Preferred Resource Levels for Climate Change Management Programs,” Journal of Risk Research 19(6): 798–809
• 王浦劬，劉新勝. 2016. “美國食品安全監管職權體系及其借鑑意義,” 《科學決策》1-9. [Puqu Wang and Xinsheng Liu. 2016. “U.S. Food Safety Supervision and Administration System and its Reference Significance,” Scientific Decision Making 1-9]
• Liu, Xinsheng, Arnold Vedlitz, James W. Stoutenborough, and Scott Robinson. 2015. “Scientists’ Views and Positions on Global Warming and Climate Change: A Content Analysis of Congressional Testimonies,” Climatic Change 131(4):487–503. [Featured in Nature Climate Change, 5(6): 515, (2015) and in dozens of online media outlets; Altmetric score of 95 (global article average = 5.0 and Climatic Change = 14.0)]
• Liu, Xinsheng and Edward Yi Yang, 2015. “Examining Chinese Official Media Perception of the United States: A Content Analysis of People’s Daily Coverage,” Journal of Chinese Political Science 20(4): 385-408
• Stoutenborough, James, Arnold Vedlitz, and Xinsheng Liu. 2015. “The Influence of Specific Risk Perceptions on Public Policy Support: An Examination of Energy Policy,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 658(1): 102-120
• Park, Sam Hyung, Xinsheng Liu and Arnold Vedlitz. 2014. “Analyzing Climate Change Debates in the U.S. Congress: Party Control and Networks,” Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 5(3): 239–363.
• Liu, Xinsheng, Arnold Vedlitz, and Liu Shi. 2014. “Examining the Determinants of Public Environmental Concern: Evidence from National Public Surveys,” Environmental Science and Policy, 2014 (39): 77-94P
• Stoutenborough, James, Xinsheng Liu, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2014. “Trends in Public Attitudes toward Climate Change: The Influence of the Economy and Climategate on Risk, Information, and Public Policy,” Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 5(1): 22-37.
• Hinich, Melvin, Xinsheng Liu, Arnold Vedlitz, and Charles Lindsey. 2013. “Beyond the Left-Right Cleavage: Exploring American Political Choice Space,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 25(1): 75-104
• Robinson, Scott E., Xinsheng Liu, James Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2013. “Explaining Popular Trust in the Department of Homeland Security,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 23 (3): 713-733
• Yang, Yi and Xinsheng Liu. “The ‘China Threat’ through the Lens of Print Media: 1992-2006,” Journal of Contemporary China 21(76): 1-18.
• Liu, Xinsheng, Eric Lindquist, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2011. “Explaining Media and Congressional Attention to Global Climate Change, 1969-2005: An Empirical Test of Agenda Setting Theory,” Political Research Quarterly 64(2): 405-419
• Robinson, Scott E., Xinsheng Liu, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2011. “Public Support for the Department of Homeland Security” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 8(1): 1-16
• Liu, Xinsheng, Eric Lindquist, Arnold Vedlitz, and Kenneth Vincent. 2010. “Understanding Local Policy Making: Policy Elites’ Perceptions of Local Agenda Setting and Policy Alternative Selection,” Policy Studies Journal 38 (1): 69-91
• Lindquist, Eric, Katrina Mosher-Howe, and Xinsheng Liu. 2010. “Nanotechnology … What is it Good for? (Absolutely Everything): A Problem Definition Approach.” Review of Policy Research 27(3): 255-271
• Liu, Xinsheng, Arnold Vedlitz, and Letitia Alston. 2008. “Regional News Portrayals of Global Warming and Climate Change,” Environmental Science and Policy 11(5): 379-393
• 劉新勝. 1988. “組織變革與機構改革,” 《中國行政管理》 [Liu, Xinsheng. “Organizational Change and Institutional Reform,” Chinese Public Administration]

Book and Book Chapter

• Liu, Xinsheng. 2006. Modeling Bilateral International Relations: The Case of US-China Interactions. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
• 《中央與地方事權劃分的國別研究及啓示》, 2016年, 與王浦劬等合著，人民出版社 (獲2020年教育部第八屆高等學校科學研究優秀成果獎人文社會科學著作一等獎 [Research on the Division of Powers and Jurisdictions between Central and Local Governments, 2016, with Puqu Wang et al. People’s Publishing House. The 1^st Prize Winner, Outstanding Research Achievement Award of National Higher Education Institutions, Ministry of Education, 2020]
• 《公共行政學》, 2017年 (第四版)，張國慶主編，王志明、劉新勝、趙成根等參著. 北京大學出版社.（第三版，2007；第二版，2000；初版，1990; 第二版獲教育部2002年全國高等學校優秀教材二等獎）[Public Administration, 2017. 4^th with Guoqing Zhang et al. Beijing: Peking University Press. (3^rd ed., 2007; 2^nd ed., 2000; 1^st ed., 1990. The 2000 edition won the 2^nd Prize, Outstanding Textbook for Higher Education Institutions, Ministry of Education, 2002,]
• Yang, Yi and Xinsheng Liu, 2012. “The ‘China Threat’ through the Lens of Print Media: 1992-2006,” （Reprinted of 2012 CJPS article）, in The Rise of China and Transformation of the US–China Relationship: Forging Partnership in the Age of Strategic Mistrust. ed. Suisheng Zhao. New York, NY: Routledge, 2014: 118-134.
• Liu, Xinsheng. 2003. “The Poliheuristic Decision Theory and the Cybernetic Decision Theory: A Comparative Examination,” in Integrating Cognitive and Rational Theories of Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Poliheuristic Theory of Decision, ed. Alex Mintz, 2003. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
• 《當代中國政府》，1991年，謝慶奎主編. 燕繼榮、楊鳳春、劉新勝等參著. 遼寧人民出版社. [Contemporary Chinese Government, 1991, with Qingkui Xie et al. Liaoning People’s Publishing House]

Dr. Xinsheng LIU is Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau. His academic interests include public policy, public administration, policy agenda setting and decision making, public opinion and participation, risk analysis and management, and comparative governance. His research primarily examines how individual and collective policy actors (e.g., citizens, communities, governments) define public problems, set policy agendas, perceive risks and benefits, and make decisions in political, administrative, and policy processes.

Prior to joining the University of Macau, Dr. Liu taught and conducted research at Peking University, University of Washington, Bothell, and Texas A&M University. He holds a PhD in political science (with specialty in public administration and public policy) from Texas A&M University and MA and BA degrees in political science from Peking University.

With extensive experience in large scale survey, quantitative content analysis, experimental design, and field study, Dr. Liu has employed social science theories and statistical methods to examine scholarly and applied research topics in areas of global warming and climate change, environmental and natural resources, emerging science and technology, public safety and security, and comparative governance. He is author of the book Modeling Bilateral International Relations (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006). His research articles have appeared in top academic journals such as Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Management Review, Public Administration, Governance, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Risk Analysis, Journal of Risk Research, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Science and Policy, Environment and Behavior, Climatic Change, Journal of Contemporary China, China Quarterly, and Chinese Public Administration.

Dr. Liu currently serves the Editorial Board of Policy Studies Journal – a premier international flagship journal that publishes top-tier articles in public policy research, and regularly provides referee services for journals in political science, public policy, public administration, risk management, and environmental and natural resources studies. Administratively, he served as Associate Director of the Public Administration and Policy Program in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of Peking University from 1991 to 1993, and Assistant Director of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Bush School of Texas A&M University from 2013 to 2019.

Dr. Liu holds the highly prestigious title of Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor (教育部長江學者講座教授) named by the Ministry of Education of China in 2018. He is also affiliated with Peking University’s School of Government as a Guest Professor, and with Peking University’s Institute for State Governance Studies and Texas A&M University’s Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy as a Research Fellow.