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Chengxin Xu, PhD

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Chengxin (Michael) Xu is an associated professor of the Department of Public Affairs and Nonprofit Leadership at 蘑菇视频.

Biography

Chengxin (Michael) Xu is an associate professor of the Department of Public Affairs and Nonprofit Leadership at 蘑菇视频. Chengxin got his PhD from the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University-Newark. He researches topics of public administration and nonprofit management. His recent research focuses on the equity of public service delivery, public engagement, and resource allocation. As an experimentalist, his studies draw on insights from theories of organizational behavior, social psychology and behavioral science.

Chengxin’s work appears in leading journals of the field, including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Voluntas, and Policy Studies Journal.  

Chengxin teaches Foundations of Public Administration (5010), Research Design (5430), Economic Analysis (5100), and Capstone (5900) at the MPA program. His teaching philosophy holds strongly that the goal of public and nonprofit administration education is to confront the inequities embedded within current institutions and to cultivate a shared commitment to the sacred work of public service.

In addition to roles as a scholar and a teacher, Chengxin is a game player (PlayStation and Nintendo) and powerlifter.

Education

  • PhD, MPA, Rutgers University-Newark

Courses Taught

  • PUBM 5010 Foundations of Public Administration
  • PUBM 5430 Research Design
  • PUBM 5100 Economic Analysis
  • PUBM 5900 Capstone for MPA
  • PUBM 5910 Data Science for Public Services
  • PUBM 3910 Public Policy and Economics

Publications

  • GPT Models for TextAnnotation: An Empirical Exploration in Public Policy Research (2025). With Churchill, Alexander, Pichika, Shamitha, and Liu, Ying. Policy Studies Journal. Online first:https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70034.
  • Information Cost and Charitable Giving (2025). With George Mitchell and Huafang Li. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764025134304.
  • No Country for Model Minorities: Evidence of Discrimination Against Asian Noncitizen Immigrants in the U.S. Nursing Home Market (2025). With Danbee Lee. Public Administration Review. 85(5), 1347-1364: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13907
  • Evaluating Use of Evidence in U.S. State Governments: A Conjoint Analysis (2024). With Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Shuping Wang, Weston Merrick and Patrick Carter. Public Administration Review. 85(4), 1217-1235: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13903