LHLinsheng He / 何林晟

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION · TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

Linsheng He何林晟[ˈlɪnʃʌŋ hʌ]

I study how policy design, behavior, and collaboration shape public outcomes.

I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Public Administration at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management. I’m especially interested in the human side of governance: how people communicate, coordinate, and respond to policy.

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Policy. People. Public outcomes.
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RESEARCH

The human side
of governance.

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.

Policy design

How do behavioral assumptions shape policy instruments and policy mixes?

Policy process; evaluation; comparative analysis

Behavioral governance

How do people perceive, remember, and respond to government action?

Experiments; public attitudes; policy feedback

Collaboration

How do organizations and publics coordinate in complex governance settings?

Coproduction; networks; collaborative governance

02 / PUBLICATIONS

Selected work.

Policy design, public attitudes,
and collaborative governance.

Aligning Behavioral Assumptions Underlying Policy Instruments

Journal article Public Administration DOI: 10.1111/padm.13057

He, 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.

DOI Policy mix; behavioral assumptions; policy instruments

Communicating in Diverse Local Cultures

Journal article Review of Policy Research DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12576

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.

DOI Government communication; local culture; nuclear power

政府采纳人脸识别技术的政策反馈解释 (Policy feedback explanations for government adoption of facial recognition technology)

Chinese-language journal article 公共行政评论 (Journal of Public Administration) 14(05), 159-177

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.

PDF Policy feedback; facial recognition; comparative case study

“工具-叙事-反馈”：一个行为公共政策的研究框架 (Tool, Narrative, and Feedback: A Research Framework for Behavioral Public Policy)

Chinese-language journal article 中国行政管理 (Chinese Public Administration) (05), 71-78

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.

Source Behavioral public policy; policy instruments; narrative; feedback

03 / BACKGROUND

Education.

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2021 — Present

Tsinghua University

Ph.D. Candidate
School of Public Policy & Management

2017 — 2021

Beijing Normal University

Bachelor
School of Government

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04 / ACADEMIC EXCHANGE

Conferences
& presentations.

Upcoming conferences listed on my homepage

GET IN TOUCH

Let’s exchange
ideas.

contact@linshenghe.com
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