The Center for Policy Design and Governance integrates policy, political and computational sciences in research and instruction to help scientists, practitioners and future public service leaders understand and address future governance challenges. The center seeks to deepen understanding of how public policies are designed, what makes public policies effective, and how governments can support cross-sector and community engagement in the public policy process. The center is home to the Policy Design Studio and supports multiple international research initiatives.

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2026

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Policy Design Complexity and Policy Outputs: Theory and Methods, Brandon Charles, Saba Siddiki, Matia Vannoni, Christopher Frantz, and Nicholas Oesterling

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Using an AI Chatbot to Improve Access to Lake Skaneateles Watershed Regulations, Lucas Colleluori and Tomás Olivier

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Medicare’s Hospital Wage Index Exceptions Grew By Nearly 60% From 2016 To 2024, Geoffrey J. Hoffman and Jun Li

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Impact of Media Guidelines on Suicide-Related Reporting Quality and Suicides: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Simone Scotti Requena, Vikas Arya, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Mark Sinyor, Michiko Ueda, Matthew J. Spittal, and Jane Pirkis

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Linking Decision Roles to Knowledge Utilization in US State Governments: A Mixed-Method Study, Shuping Wang, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, and Chengxin Xu

2025

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Evidence-based practices and US state government civil servants: Current use, challenges, and pathways forward, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Leslie Thompson, Shuping Wang, Jules Marzec, Chengxin Xu, Weston Merrick, and Patrick Carter

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What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence among New York State Municipal Leaders, Nicholas Croce and Saba Siddiki

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Rule-mediated connectivity in social-ecological-technological systems: A comparative network analysis of reservoir operation rules in Coyote Valley Dam (United States) and Ameghino Dam (Argentina), Tomás Olivier, Hoon C. Shin, David J. Yu, and Margaret Garcia

2024

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Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils, Graham Ambrose, Jangmin Kim, and Saba Siddiki

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A policy design perspective on electricity rates, Nicholas Oesterling

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Institutional fit and policy design in water governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts, Tomás Olivier and Sechindra Vallury

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Evaluating Use of Evidence in U.S. State Governments: A Conjoint Analysis, Chengxin Xu, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Shuping Wang, Weston Merrick, and Patrick Carter

2023

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Research in a Closed Political Context, COVID, and Across Languages: Methodological Lessons, Messages, and Ideas, Darzhan Kazbekova and Rebecca Schewe

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Evaluating Change in Representation and Coordination in Collaborative Governance Over Time: A Study of Environmental Justice Councils, Saba Siddiki and Graham Ambrose

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Emotional Distress During COVID-19 by Mental Health Conditions and Economic Vulnerability: Retrospective Analysis of Survey-Linked Twitter Data With a Semisupervised Machine Learning Algorithm, Michiko Ueda-Ballmer, Kohei Watanabe, and Hajime Sueki