Chengxin Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4385495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chengxin Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chengxin |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4930-9028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
GPT models for text annotation
Text annotation, the practice of labeling text following a predetermined scheme, is essential to qualitative public policy research. Despite its importance, annotating large qualitative data faces challenges of high labor and time costs. Recent developments in large language models (LLMs), specifically models with generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), show a potential approach that may alleviate the burden of manual text annotation. In this …
Evaluating use of evidence in U.S. state governments
Evidence‐based practice (EBP) has become a global public management movement to improve constituents' lives through government decision making. However, how civil servants' decisions are influenced by scientific evidence remains unanswered. In this study, we answer two related research questions: (1) How do different elements of evidence impact civil servants' program preferences? (2) How does the rating of evidence influence their program prefer…
Evidence‐based practices and US state government civil servants
Leveraging a three‐state survey of 323 civil servants and 36 interviews, representing blue and red states, this university‐government‐nonprofit collaborative research project aims to better understand how civil servants access and use evidence in their decision‐making process. Our findings show that 54% of respondents find evidence‐based practices (EBPs) useful in making budget, policy, and contracting decisions, with 68% of civil servants antici…
No country for model minorities
Although public administration scholars have long been studying discriminative behavior of frontline servants of public service organizations, whether and to what extent Asians and noncitizen immigrants may suffer from frontline discrimination in the United States lacks evidential support. To fill this gap, we conducted a corresponding field experiment in the U.S. nursing home market ( N = 6428). Our findings identify substantial discrimination a…
Everything hacked? What is the evidential value of the experimental public administration literature?
The rise of behavioral public administration provides new perspectives – especially from a psychological point of view – to understand public administration theories and the growing interest in using experiments to enhance the internal validity of empirical studies. However, psychology and other social sciences are undergoing a replication crisis where experimental results often do not replicate. One reason for the limited replicability is the pu…
Does mislabeling Covid-19 elicit the perception of threat and reduce blame?
Associating a life-threatening crisis with a geographic locality can stigmatize people from that area. However, such a strategy may reduce the public blame attributed to the government because the perceived foreign threat establishes a scapegoat, which transfers that blame. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we investigated whether the “Chinese Virus” label placed on COVID-19 has elicited opposition to Chinese immigrants and reduced public …
Loss or Gain? Unpacking Nonprofit Autonomy-Interdependence Paradox in Collaborations
Nonprofit organizations interested in collaborating with other entities find it difficult to strike a balance between keeping their autonomy and reaping the benefits from collaborating with other organizations. Although interorganizational collaborations come with various benefits, such as reducing competition over limited resources, participating in collaborative relationships can also damage the autonomy of individual nonprofits. Using an origi…
Resource Publicness Matters in Organizational Perceptions
Publicness theory deepens our understanding of differences and similarities of organizational behavior. However, in areas in which public, nonprofit, and private organizations compete to serve people, it remains unclear how the level of dimensional publicness influences individuals’ perceptions and choices of organizations. In this study, we present evidence from two online experiments examining the way people's perceptions of resource publicness…
Using Large-Scale Social Media Experiments in Public Administration
In this article, we introduce and showcase how social media can be used to implement experiments in public administration research. To do so, we pre-registered a placebo-controlled field experiment and implemented it on the social media platform Facebook. The purpose of the experiment was to examine whether government funding to nonprofit organizations has an effect on charitable donations. Theories on the interaction between government funding a…
Complementary or Supplementary? The Relationship Between Government Size and Nonprofit Sector Size
Do government activities discourage or leverage nonprofit activities? The extant literature has proposed competing lines of arguments, making the net effect ambiguous. The present study conducts a meta-analysis to synthesize extant studies concerning the relationship between the level of government activities and the level of nonprofit activities within a locality and explore potential moderating effects. Through systematically reviewing 30 extan…
Using Large-Scale Social Media Experiments in Public Administration
In this article, we introduce and showcase how social media can be used to implement experiments in public administration research. To do so, we pre-registered a placebo-controlled field experiment and implemented it on the social media platform Facebook. The purpose of the experiment was to examine whether government funding to nonprofit organizations has an effect on charitable donations. Theories on the interaction between government funding a…
Complementary or Supplementary? The Relationship Between Government Size and Nonprofit Sector Size
Do government activities discourage or leverage nonprofit activities? The extant literature has proposed competing lines of arguments, making the net effect ambiguous. The present study conducts a meta-analysis to synthesize extant studies concerning the relationship between the level of government activities and the level of nonprofit activities within a locality and explore potential moderating effects. Through systematically reviewing 30 extan…
Evidence‐based practices and US state government civil servants
Leveraging a three‐state survey of 323 civil servants and 36 interviews, representing blue and red states, this university‐government‐nonprofit collaborative research project aims to better understand how civil servants access and use evidence in their decision‐making process. Our findings show that 54% of respondents find evidence‐based practices (EBPs) useful in making budget, policy, and contracting decisions, with 68% of civil servants antici…
GPT models for text annotation
Text annotation, the practice of labeling text following a predetermined scheme, is essential to qualitative public policy research. Despite its importance, annotating large qualitative data faces challenges of high labor and time costs. Recent developments in large language models (LLMs), specifically models with generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), show a potential approach that may alleviate the burden of manual text annotation. In this …
Loss or Gain? Unpacking Nonprofit Autonomy-Interdependence Paradox in Collaborations
Nonprofit organizations interested in collaborating with other entities find it difficult to strike a balance between keeping their autonomy and reaping the benefits from collaborating with other organizations. Although interorganizational collaborations come with various benefits, such as reducing competition over limited resources, participating in collaborative relationships can also damage the autonomy of individual nonprofits. Using an origi…
Evaluating use of evidence in U.S. state governments
Evidence‐based practice (EBP) has become a global public management movement to improve constituents' lives through government decision making. However, how civil servants' decisions are influenced by scientific evidence remains unanswered. In this study, we answer two related research questions: (1) How do different elements of evidence impact civil servants' program preferences? (2) How does the rating of evidence influence their program prefer…
Complementary or Supplementary? The Relationship Between Government Size and Nonprofit Sector Size
Do government activities discourage or leverage nonprofit activities? The extant literature has proposed competing lines of arguments, making the net effect ambiguous. The present study conducts a meta-analysis to synthesize extant studies concerning the relationship between the level of government activities and the level of nonprofit activities within a locality and explore potential moderating effects. Through systematically reviewing 30 extan…
Using Large-Scale Social Media Experiments in Public Administration
In this article, we introduce and showcase how social media can be used to implement experiments in public administration research. To do so, we pre-registered a placebo-controlled field experiment and implemented it on the social media platform Facebook. The purpose of the experiment was to examine whether government funding to nonprofit organizations has an effect on charitable donations. Theories on the interaction between government funding a…
Everything hacked? What is the evidential value of the experimental public administration literature?
The rise of behavioral public administration provides new perspectives – especially from a psychological point of view – to understand public administration theories and the growing interest in using experiments to enhance the internal validity of empirical studies. However, psychology and other social sciences are undergoing a replication crisis where experimental results often do not replicate. One reason for the limited replicability is the pu…
Does mislabeling Covid-19 elicit the perception of threat and reduce blame?
Associating a life-threatening crisis with a geographic locality can stigmatize people from that area. However, such a strategy may reduce the public blame attributed to the government because the perceived foreign threat establishes a scapegoat, which transfers that blame. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we investigated whether the “Chinese Virus” label placed on COVID-19 has elicited opposition to Chinese immigrants and reduced public …
Loss or Gain? Unpacking Nonprofit Autonomy-Interdependence Paradox in Collaborations
Nonprofit organizations interested in collaborating with other entities find it difficult to strike a balance between keeping their autonomy and reaping the benefits from collaborating with other organizations. Although interorganizational collaborations come with various benefits, such as reducing competition over limited resources, participating in collaborative relationships can also damage the autonomy of individual nonprofits. Using an origi…
Resource Publicness Matters in Organizational Perceptions
Publicness theory deepens our understanding of differences and similarities of organizational behavior. However, in areas in which public, nonprofit, and private organizations compete to serve people, it remains unclear how the level of dimensional publicness influences individuals’ perceptions and choices of organizations. In this study, we present evidence from two online experiments examining the way people's perceptions of resource publicness…
Evaluating use of evidence in U.S. state governments
Evidence‐based practice (EBP) has become a global public management movement to improve constituents' lives through government decision making. However, how civil servants' decisions are influenced by scientific evidence remains unanswered. In this study, we answer two related research questions: (1) How do different elements of evidence impact civil servants' program preferences? (2) How does the rating of evidence influence their program prefer…
Evidence‐based practices and US state government civil servants
Leveraging a three‐state survey of 323 civil servants and 36 interviews, representing blue and red states, this university‐government‐nonprofit collaborative research project aims to better understand how civil servants access and use evidence in their decision‐making process. Our findings show that 54% of respondents find evidence‐based practices (EBPs) useful in making budget, policy, and contracting decisions, with 68% of civil servants antici…
No country for model minorities
Although public administration scholars have long been studying discriminative behavior of frontline servants of public service organizations, whether and to what extent Asians and noncitizen immigrants may suffer from frontline discrimination in the United States lacks evidential support. To fill this gap, we conducted a corresponding field experiment in the U.S. nursing home market ( N = 6428). Our findings identify substantial discrimination a…
GPT models for text annotation
Text annotation, the practice of labeling text following a predetermined scheme, is essential to qualitative public policy research. Despite its importance, annotating large qualitative data faces challenges of high labor and time costs. Recent developments in large language models (LLMs), specifically models with generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), show a potential approach that may alleviate the burden of manual text annotation. In this …
Political science (9 works) · Economics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Government (linguistics (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works)