Yixin Liu

Yixin Liu

Asst Professor

Marxe School of Public and International Affairs

Department: Public Affairs

Areas of expertise: collaborative governance, environmental policy, local government, citizen participation

Email Address: yixin.liu@baruch.cuny.edu

Yixin Liu's research examines cross-sector collaborative governance in environmental policy implementation—specifically, why and how people collaborate and whether it works. He employs causal methods using both observational and experimental data to address these questions. In 2024, he received the first-place Paul Volcker Junior Scholar Research Award from the American Political Science Association.

His work has been published in leading public management and policy journals, including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Policy Studies Journal, and Public Management Review, among others.

Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics & International Affairs at Northern Arizona University (2024-2025) and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University (2022-2024). 

Education

Ph.D., Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University

M.P.P., Public Policy Analysis, Rutgers University-New Brunswick