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Faculty

Headshot of Danyao Li

Education

Ph.D. in Public Affairs, The Paul H. O’Neill School of Public
Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Expertise

Public Management
Representation and Diversity
Bureaucratic Decision Making
Social Equity and Justice
Law Enforcement

Biography

Danyao Li earned her Ph.D. in Public Affairs from The Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington and joined USC Sol Price School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor in 2022. Her research centers on representation and diversity, bureaucratic decision making and organizational performance, often with a specific application to law enforcement. She is primarily interested in research questions that concern issues of social equity and justice. Her work aims to develop a better understanding of the ways in which design and implementation of policy programs impact disparities in policy outcomes.

Selected Publications

In The News

Kudos

July 3, 2023 Dr. Li wins the Public Management Research Association (PMRA) 2023 Best Dissertation Award for “Bureaucratic Representation, Individual Decision Making and Organizational Performance in Law Enforcement.”