Bio
Zhengyan Li is assistant professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration. He studies environmental policy and public administration. His research focuses on environmental attitudes and public opinion, environmental inequality, environmental regulations, information disclosure, performance information, and citizen-state interactions.
Zhengyan was a postdoctoral fellow in the Ross School of Business & School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan before he joined the University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Before that, He got his MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and completed his BA at Renmin University of China.
Personal website:
https://ianzli.wixsite.com/mysite
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LRlUxUwAAAAJ&hl=en
Selected Publications:
Li, Z. & Lyon, T. P. (2024). Learning or Leaking? General Deterrence Effects Within and Beyond
the Firm. Business & Society. Online.
Li, Z. (2024). The Uninformed Budge yet the Misinformed Buck: Performance Information and
Citizen Satisfaction. Public Management Review. Online.
Li, Z. (2024). Alarmed but Unmoved: The Impact of the Provision of Correct Local Environmental
Information. Political Behavior, 46(1), 163-183.
Li, Z. (2023). Bureaucratic Response to Performance Information: How Mandatory Information
Disclosure Affects Environmental Inspections. Public Administration Review, 83(4), 750–762.
Li, Z. & Konisky, D. M. (2023). Personal Attributes and (Mis)perceptions of Local Environmental
Risk. Review of Policy Research, 40(1), 119-152.
Cheng, Y., & Li, Z. (2022). Government-nonprofit Partnerships Outside the Contracting Relationship and Public Funding Allocation: Evidence from New York City’s Park System. Nonprofit
Management and Leadership, 33(2), 319-344.
Li, Z. (2021). A New Look at the Racial Differences in Environmental Attitudes: the Roles of Risk
Perception and Group Consciousness. Journal of Environmental Management, 299, 113616.
Li, Z., Konisky, D. M., & Zirogiannis, N. (2019). Racial, Ethnic, and Income Disparities in Air
Pollution: A Study of Excess Emissions in Texas. PLoS One, 14(8), e0220696.
Blackman, A., Li, Z., & Liu, A. A. (2018). Efficacy of Command-and-Control and Market-Based
Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 10(1),
381-404.
