Xiangyu Li

 Xiangyu Li

Xiangyu Li

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Biography

West Texas A&M University - Political Science


Resume

  • 2009

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

    Public Administration

    University of North Texas

    Certificate in Geographic Information System

    University of North Texas

  • 2001

    Bachelor

    Urban and Regional Planning

  • 1998

    Chinese

    English

    Chief Editor of the School Journal

    The No. 5 High School of Taiyuan

  • Teaching

    University Teaching

    PowerPoint

    Visual C#

    SPSS

    Transportation Management

    Research

    Higher Education

    Public Speaking

    Stata

    Quantitative Research

    Microsoft Office

    Emergency Management

    Statistics

    Data Analysis

    ArcGIS

    GIS

    Public Administration

    Statistical Modeling

    Microsoft Excel

    Grass-Root Organisations

    Intergovernmental Collaboration

    and Emergency Preparedness: An Institutional Collective Action Approach.

    Simon Andrew

    Local Government Studies

    Vol. 41

    Issue 5

    This paper examines the importance of grass-root emergency response groups in emergency preparedness. Consistent with the Institutional Collective Action framework

    we highlight key constraints associated with local government strategies of mutual resource exchange and barriers to intergovernmental collaboration. We examine local governments’ emergency preparedness using survey data collected in the North Central Texas region. We employed a simple OLS analysis to determine mutual exchange and Poisson estimations on the likelihood of local governments receiving and providing external assistance. Findings showed that the presence of grass-root organisations in a jurisdiction is associated with emergency preparedness

    highlighting the importance of norms of volunteerism. Local political institutions and participation in federally funded programmes also have an effect on local government decisions.

    Grass-Root Organisations

    Intergovernmental Collaboration

    and Emergency Preparedness: An Institutional Collective Action Approach.

    Walter Peacock

    Hurricane evacuations in coastal counties have been reviewed and analyzed for the role of household preparedness and decisions before and during a disaster. However

    one of the several emerging problems in the hurricane evacuation is transportation. Transportation issues have become more important in coastal evacuations as traffic problems impinge on people’s ability to get out of harm’s way and ultimately influence their decisions to evacuate. To add to the complexity

    when families evacuate in multiple vehicles

    it leads to additional vehicular traffic on roads and increased pressure on the transportation systems. However

    little has been investigated on the characteristics that influence a household’s decision to evacuate in one or multiple vehicles. The outcome from such an analysis can help both the emergency managers and the transportation planners to targets groups that report taking more vehicles to develop policies that result in efficient evacuation. This study investigates the responses of evacuees surveyed after Hurricane Rita in the counties of Galveston

    Brazoria and Harris County. The ordinary least square regression analysis revealed that access to transportation characteristics of a household such as number of registered vehicles in a household and number of eligible drivers was positively and significantly related to evacuating in more vehicles. Meanwhile

    \nthe risk of reaching destination safely was negatively related to taking more vehicles for evacuation even though both the risk index and deterrence index were positively significant. The time of decision and evacuation did not report any statistical significance.

    Highway congestion during evacuation: examining the household’s choice of number of vehicles to evacuate

    Many people criticized how the Chinese government responded to the Wenchuan Earthquake. They focused on how it failed to address the psychological needs of the survivors. The study presented here approached this issue from a human resources perspective. It was determined that the Chinese government approached the situation in a bureaucratic way that limited the government’s capacity and barred non-profit organizations and community groups from participating. It was also found that survivors could not contact these organizations for psychological support. This study concludes that the situation called for a more flexible and improvised institution that would respond to the emerging needs of survivors.

    Hierarchy

    Construction

    or Mentality: Capacity-Limiting Government Actions in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake of China.

    Jing-xiang Zhang

    The spatial differentiation of state is not a major concern in the mainstream Chinese urban studies yet. The state is viewed as a crucial actor in the production of urban space or a key producer of the urban space. However

    the spatiality of state

    along with its role in the production of urban space

    is neglected traditionally in the urban studies of Chinese context. This theoretical tradition leads to a number of academic issues. At the practitioner side

    the spatial differentiation is a strategy employed by municipal governments to promote city development and space production in particular places or scales and it could be understood in the traditional theoretical framework Therefore

    the academia needs to pay more attention to the spatial differentiation of state in term of the organization and distribution of state powers

    public policies

    and stateowned resources in Chinese municipalities

    and there is immediate demands to search for new theoretical frameworks beyond the traditional ones

    . This paper holds that the development of state-space theory in the Western academia provides an opportunity for re-theorizing the spatial differentiation of state and its role in the urban spatial process. Based on an analysis over the institutional difference between China and its Western counterpart

    the paper finds great potential and necessity of state space theory in urban studies. The paper conceptualizes the state space process in the context of Chinese cities. The state space process at this level represents the intertwined triple processes—the spatial process of state power structure

    the spatial process of state intervention strategy and policy

    and the spatial distributive process of state-owned resources. Finally

    the paper discusses the challenges and limitations. The traditional ambiguous worldview over the \"national\" and \"local\" states can constrain the understanding of the fruitful meanings of state space.

    AN EXPLORATION TO STATE SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND CHINESE URBAN STUDIES THROUGH THE LENS OF STATE SPACE THEORY

    Jingxiang Zhang

    It is worthwhile to empirically probe the prominent value of the transformation process by employing the state rescaling perspective. However

    the state rescaling

    as an important theoretical discourse

    has not been systemically scrutinized in Chinese context. In this article

    the empirical framework based on the central state–led regional planning and its changes is established and implemented to unfold the evolution trajectory of China’s six state scaling stages since 1953. In the meantime

    it is argued that China’s state rescaling is not resulted from overall socioeconomic transformation

    but plays a role as the leading project. Therefore

    it could be concluded that state rescaling in China is neither the product of internal ‘natural economic process’ nor the consequence triggered by the globalization

    but the outcome of the state’s positive political selection.

    Rescaling as a Leading National Transformation Project: Decoding State Rescaling in China’s Changing Central State–Led Regional Planning.

    Walter Peacock

    One of the long-held assumptions of evacuation research is that households constitute the basic unit for decision making and ultimately evacuation itself. Most disaster researchers collect their data and build their models around the assumption that household decision making and ultimately evacuation are undertaken as a single unit. Recently it has been suggested that family and household evacuation patterns may be undergoing change and that there is an increasing trend of households using more than one vehicle to evacuate. This study addresses these potential changes directly by focusing on the issue of whether households actually stay together when evacuating versus splitting with groups leaving at different times. This investigation of households evacuating due to Hurricane Rita revealed that 9.3% of households evacuated in multiple groups at different times

    with nearly 17% of households in highly vulnerable areas such as Galveston

    Texas

    splitting compared with 7.3% among shadow evacuee households. The findings suggest that location in highly vulnerable areas

    concerns about reaching destinations safely

    income

    and having multiple vehicles were important determinants of splitting

    with additional sociodemographic factors displaying marginal significance as well. Consequences for future research

    modeling

    and data collection are discussed.

    Evacuating Together or Separately: Factors Influencing Split Evacuations Prior to Hurricane Rita.

    Xiangyu (Dale)

    Li

    CCDI 悉地国际

    Department of Public Administration in University of North Texas

    University of North Texas

    West Texas A&M University

    Oklahoma State University

    Shanghai

    China

    Researcher

    CCDI 悉地国际

    PADM 4450 Public Policy Analysis;\nPADM 3420 Bureaucracy and Public Policy;\nPADM 3000 Introduction to Public Administration;\nEADP 3010 Introduction to Emergency Management

    University of North Texas

    PHD Candidate

    University of North Texas

    Research Assistant

    Public Administration

    Emergency Management

    Social Network Analysis

    GIS

    University of North Texas

    West Texas A&M University

    Canyon

    TX

    Assistant Professor and EMA/PA Program Coordinator

    Department of Public Administration in University of North Texas

    Oklahoma State University

    Stillwater

    Oklahoma

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Management

    University of North Texas

    Adjunct Instructor

    PADM 4450 Public Policy Analysis\nPADM 3020 Public Management/EADP 3080 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

    University of North Texas

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