Policy design
How do behavioral assumptions shape policy instruments and policy mixes?
Policy process; evaluation; comparative analysisPh.D. Candidate · Tsinghua University
I’m Linsheng He, a Ph.D. candidate in Public Administration at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management. I study how policy design, behavior, and collaboration shape public outcomes.
I’m especially interested in the human side of governance: how people communicate, coordinate, and respond to policy. I use experiments and comparative methods to study collaboration, policy feedback, and public attitudes in context.
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My research examines how governments design policy instruments, communicate with publics, and coordinate across organizations. I use behavioral experiments, comparative case analysis, meta-analysis, and computational approaches to study public administration and policy processes.
How do behavioral assumptions shape policy instruments and policy mixes?
Policy process; evaluation; comparative analysisHow do people perceive, remember, and respond to government action?
Experiments; public attitudes; policy feedbackHow do organizations and publics coordinate in complex governance settings?
Coproduction; networks; collaborative governanceHe, L., Dai, Y., & Guo, Y. Public Administration, Online First. SSCI, JCR Q1, ABS 4.
Shows that policy mixes are more effective when the behavioral assumptions embedded in their instruments are consistent.
Guo, Y., & He, L. Review of Policy Research, 41(4), 654-678. SSCI, JCR Q1.
Examines how local culture can guide audience segmentation and communication strategies around nuclear power projects.
郭跃, 洪婧诗, & 何林晟. 公共行政评论 (Journal of Public Administration), 14(05), 159-177. CSSCI.
Uses a comparative case study of Hangzhou and San Francisco to explain government adoption of facial recognition technology through policy feedback.
郭跃, 何林晟, & 苏竣. 中国行政管理 (Chinese Public Administration), (05), 71-78. CSSCI.
Builds an instrument-narrative-feedback framework to connect behavioral public policy with general policy process theories.
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Public Policy & Management
Bachelor, School of Government