Shui Yan Tang

Biography

Shui Yan Tang’s research focuses on institutional analysis and design, common-pool resource governance, environmental politics and policy, collaborative governance, and governance reform. He is the author of Institutions and Collective Action: Self-Governance in Irrigation (ICS Press, 1992) and Ten Principles for a Rule-ordered Society: Enhancing China’s Governing Capacity (China Economic Publishing House, 2012). He has published in numerous journals, including Comparative Politics, Economic Development Quarterly, Environment and Planning A, Governance, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Land Economics, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Public Administration Review, The China Quarterly, and World Development. Professor Tang was associate editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Selected Publications

• Yee, W.-H., Tang, S.-Y., & Lo, C. W.-H. (2024). Constructing regulatory regimes for Sustainable Development: Commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 26(4), 449–463. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908x.2024.2369287.
• Tao, L., Tang, S.-Y., & Wen, B. (2023). Advancing the Frontiers of Genomic Public Administration: From Genetics to Administrative Attitudes, Behaviors, And Practices. Public Administration Review, 83(6), 1447–1461.
• An, B. Y., Porcher, S., & Tang, S., (2023). Global diffusion of covid-19 policies: The Role of Geographic, institutional, and cultural cues. Policy Studies Journal, 52(1), 169-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12514.