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Overview

Hongtao Yi is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and specializes in social sciences with a concentrated focus on political science and international relations among other related subfields. Their research spans multiple interconnected disciplines, including public administration, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, as well as strategy and management.

The primary topics covered by Hongtao Yi's work highlight areas such as public policy and administration research, policy transfer and learning, local government finance and decentralization, political influence and corporate strategies, energy, environment, and economic growth, China's socioeconomic reforms and governance, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include Public Management Review and Public Administration Review, with six publications each. Other notable venues are Review of Policy Research with five publications, Public Administration with four, and Urban Governance also with four publications.

Among recent papers, the following are notable examples:

  • New energy demonstration program and China's urban green economic growth: Do regional characteristics make a difference? (2021), published in Energy Policy
  • Target-setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade-off between economic development and environmental protection (2021), published in Public Administration
  • Under what conditions do governments collaborate? A qualitative comparative analysis of air pollution control in China (2021), published in Public Management Review
  • Networked environmental governance: formal and informal collaborative networks in local China (2020), published in Policy Studies
  • Responsive E-government in China: A way of gaining public support (2023), published in Government Information Quarterly

Hongtao Yi collaborates regularly with a group of frequent coauthors including Weixing Liu, Christopher M. Weible, Tanya Heikkila, Catherine Chen, and Ramiro Berardo.

Best Publications

  • Clean energy policies and green jobs: An evaluation of green jobs in U.S. metropolitan areas

    Hongtao Yi

  • The impacts of provincial energy and environmental policies on air pollution control in China

    Shiming Zheng;Hongtao Yi;Hui Li

  • Policy Tool Interactions and the Adoption of State Renewable Portfolio Standards

    Hongtao Yi;Richard C. Feiock

  • Green economy in China: Regional variations and policy drivers

    Hongtao Yi;Yuan Liu

  • Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability

    Hongtao Yi;Liming Suo;Ruowen Shen;Jiasheng Zhang

  • Renewable Energy Politics: Policy Typologies, Policy Tools, and State Deployment of Renewables

    Hongtao Yi;Richard C. Feiock

  • Green businesses in a clean energy economy: Analyzing drivers of green business growth in U.S. states

    Hongtao Yi

  • Applying Policy Termination Theory to the Abandonment of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Local Governments

    Rachel M. Krause;Hongtao Yi;Richard C. Feiock

  • Multilevel governance and deployment of solar PV panels in U.S. cities

    Hui Li;Hongtao Yi

  • New energy demonstration program and China's urban green economic growth: Do regional characteristics make a difference?

    Qiao Wang;Hongtao Yi;Hongtao Yi

  • What Causes Haze Pollution? An Empirical Study of PM2.5 Concentrations in Chinese Cities

    Jiannan Wu;Pan Zhang;Hongtao Yi;Zhao Qin

  • Target-setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade-off between economic development and environmental protection

    Juan Du;Hongtao Yi

  • Management Innovation and Policy Diffusion through Leadership Transfer Networks: An Agent Network Diffusion Model

    Hongtao Yi;Frances Stokes Berry;Wenna Chen

  • Network Structure and Governance Performance: What Makes a Difference?

    Hongtao Yi

  • Back-pedaling or continuing quietly? Assessing the impact of ICLEI membership termination on cities’ sustainability actions

    Hongtao Yi;Rachel M. Krause;Richard C. Feiock

  • Performance Ranking and Environmental Governance: An Empirical Study of the Mandatory Target System

    Xiao Tang;Zhengwen Liu;Hongtao Yi

  • Policy Networks in Complex Governance Subsystems: Observing and Comparing Hyperlink, Media, and Partnership Networks

    Hongtao Yi;John T. Scholz

  • Overcoming collective action barriers to energy sustainability: A longitudinal study of climate protection accord adoption by local governments

    Hongtao Yi;Richard C. Feiock;Frances S. Berry

  • Under what conditions do governments collaborate? A qualitative comparative analysis of air pollution control in China

    Yao Liu;Jiannan Wu;Hongtao Yi;Jing Wen

  • A Comparative View of Advocacy Coalitions: Exploring Shale Development Politics in the United States, Argentina, and China

    Tanya Heikkila;Ramiro Berardo;Christopher M. Weible;Hongtao Yi

  • Networked environmental governance: formal and informal collaborative networks in local China

    Chen Huang;Hongtao Yi;Tao Chen;Xiaolin Xu

  • Collaborative Environmental Governance, Inter-Agency Cooperation and Local Water Sustainability in China

    Chen Huang;Tao Chen;Hongtao Yi;Xiaolin Xu

  • Complementarity and substitutability: A review of state level renewable energy policy instrument interactions

    Quan Cheng;Hongtao Yi

  • Coping with functional collective action dilemma: functional fragmentation and administrative integration

    Hongtao Yi;Can Cui

  • Multilevel Environmental Governance: Vertical and Horizontal Influences in Local Policy Networks

    Hongtao Yi;Chen Huang;Tao Chen;Xiaolin Xu

  • Mandatory Targets and Environmental Performance: An Analysis Based on Regression Discontinuity Design

    Xiao Tang;Zhengwen Liu;Hongtao Yi

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard C. Feiock
Richard C. Feiock Florida State University
Frances Stokes Berry
Frances Stokes Berry Florida State University
Christopher M. Weible
Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver
Tanya Heikkila
Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver
Ramiro Berardo
Ramiro Berardo The Ohio State University
Anu Ramaswami
Anu Ramaswami Princeton University
John T. Scholz
John T. Scholz Florida State University
Kaifeng Yang
Kaifeng Yang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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