September, 2015
Ping Xu
University of Rhode Island Phone: 401-874-4053 130 Washburn Hall 80 Upper College Road Fax: 401-874-4072 Kingston, RI 02881-0817 Email: [email protected]
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rhode Island, August 2012-present
EDUCATION Ph.D., Political Science, Louisiana State University, August 2012 M.Sc., Public Administration, University of Leiden (The Netherlands), January 2007 (With Honors) B.Sc., Business Administration, Wuhan University (China), July 2005 (With Honors)
PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles James Garand, Ping Xu and Belinda Davis. “Immigration Attitudes and Support for the Welfare State in the American Mass Public,” American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming (accepted on April 25 2015, waiting for page proofs).
Ping Xu, James Garand and Ling Zhu. “Imported Inequality? Immigration and Income Inequality in the American States,” State Politics and Policy Quarterly, forthcoming (page proofs finished)
Ling Zhu and Ping Xu. 2015. “The Politics of Welfare Exclusion: Immigration and Disparity in Medicaid Coverage” Policy Studies Journal, published online before print April 28, 2015.
Ping Xu and Brian Krueger. 2015. “Trade Exposure and the Polarization of Government Spending in the American States”, American Politics Research, published online before print March 23, 2015, doi: 10.1177/1532673X15572251
Xi Chen and Ping Xu. 2011. “From Resistance to Advocacy: Political Representation for Disabled People in China,” The China Quarterly, 207, September 2011, pp649-667
Ping Xu and James Garand. 2010. “Economic Contexts and Americans’ Attitudes toward Income Inequality,” Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 91(5), pp.1220-1241
Jiajun Xu and Ping Xu. 2008. “Perceptions and Misperceptions of Chinese Earthquake Response by International Media,” Journal of Crisis Management, Vol. 44(5), pp.8-14 (In Chinese)
Ping Xu. 2004. “An Analysis of the 2004 Price Increase based on the Price Theory,” Prices Monthly, Vol. 320(1), p41 (In Chinese)
Book Chapters James C. Garand and Ping Xu.“Bureaucrats, Policy Attitudes, and Political Behavior: A Reappraisal,” in Daniel Rubenson and Peter Loewen (ed.), Duty and Choice: Participation and Preferences in Democratic Elections, Toronto: University of Toronto, forthcoming.
Ping Xu, Xiaoli Li, Xi Zuo, and Huang Zhang. 2014. “China after the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008,” in 2 Vita Ping Xu
Naim Kapucu and Kuotsai Tom Liou (ed.), Disaster & Development: Examining Global Issues and Cases, New York: Springer International Publishing, pp 427-447.
James Garand, Justin Ulrich and Ping Xu. 2013. “Fiscal Policy in the American States,” in Donald Haider-Markel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Politics, a volume of Oxford Handbooks of American Politics, New York: Oxford University Press.
Qiang Zhang, Dongming Wang, Huan Zhang, and Ping Xu. 2008. “Sichuan Red Cross and Its Management of Donation in the Aftermath of Wenchuan Earthquake,” in Council of Earthquake Rescue and Disaster Relief Advisors (ed.), Research Colloquium on Social Management and Policy in the Aftermath of Wenchuan Earthquake, Beijing: Science Press. (In Chinese)
Ping Xu and Kaibin Zhong. 2008. “Evacuation and Relocation of Elderly Evacuees in 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake,” in Council of Earthquake Rescue and Disaster Relief Advisors (ed.), Research Colloquium on Social Management and Policy in the Aftermath of Wenchuan Earthquake, Beijing: Science Press. (In Chinese)
Policy Briefs and Media Engagement Ping Xu and Brian Krueger. “Conservative controlled states cut infrastructure and welfare spending in response to increased exposure to global trade.” The London School of Economics and Political Science, USAPP American Politics and Policy Blog, May 4, 2015.
Ping Xu. “Evacuation, Relocation and Care-taking of Elderly People in 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake,” policy delivery to Central Chinese governmental agencies, May 28, 2008 (In Chinese)
WORK UNDER REVIEW AND IN PROGRESS
Ping Xu. “Compensation or Retrenchment? The Paradox of Immigration and Public Welfare Spending in the American States,” revise and resubmit at State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
Brian Krueger and Ping Xu. “Race to the Bottom: Has Economic Globalization Reduced Citizen Control over Public Policy?” under review at Politics & Policy
Ping Xu and Ling Zhu. “Immigration, Welfare Exclusion, and State-Level Inequality in TANF Participation,” under review at Journal of Public Policy.
Ping Xu. “Immigration and Support for the Welfare State in OECD countries,” under review at Journal of International Migration and Integration.
Ping Xu. “Has Globalization Fostered an Unequal Democracy? --An Empirical Study in the American States,” under review at Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.
Ping Xu, Yinjiao Ye and Mingxin Zhang. “Social Media, Public Discourse and Civic Engagement in Modern China,” under review at Telematics and Informatics.
Kristin Johnson and Ping Xu. “Disentangling the Political Participation Puzzle in China,” Manuscript in preparation.
Marc L. Hutchison and Ping Xu. “Trust in China? The Impact of Economic Progress and Political Violence on Political Trust across China’s Provinces, 2001-2012,” Manuscript in preparation. 3 Vita Ping Xu
Ping Xu, James Garand and Belinda Davis. “Diversity, Threat, or Prejudice? Immigration and Americans’ Support for the Welfare State,” Manuscript in preparation.
Ping Xu. “Globalization, Immigration and Income Inequality in 20 OECD Countries, 1970-2008”, work under progress.
James Garand, Nick Davis and Ping Xu. “A Comparative Test of Bureau Voting Theory,” Manuscript in preparation.
HONORS, AWARDS, AND NOTABLE ACTIVITIES LSU Dissertation Fellowship, Louisiana State University, 2011-2012 Scholarship to attend the Ninth NSF-EITM institute, National Science Foundation, 2011 Travel Award to attend Bayesian Analysis Workshop, Texas A&M University, 2011 National Committee on US-China Relations Foreign Policy Colloquium, Washington DC, 2011 Warren E. Miller Scholarship to participate in ICPSR, University of Michigan, 2010 Honors Degree for Distinguished Master Thesis, Leiden University, 2007 Leiden University Excellence Scholarship, Leiden University, 2005-2007 Degree of University Excellence for Undergraduate Study, 2005 Top Award of People’s Scholarship for all four years, Wuhan University, 2001-2005
INIVTED PRESENTATIONS Research colloquium, “Diversity, Threat, or Prejudice? Immigration and Americans’ Support for the Welfare State”, Tsinghua University, June 2014, Beijing, China Panel speaker, “China-Korean-Japan Relations”, International Association of Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) conference, August 2 2014, Rhode Island Panel speaker, “Out of Diversity: We Speak”, Diversity Week at URI, 2012 & 2013 Panel speaker, “Gender Gap in China”, International Women’s Day Panel Discussion with Dacia Maraini, March 1, 2013, Rhode Island
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS American Political Science Association Annual Conferences: 2009; 2011; 2012; 2014; 2015 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conferences: 2009-2015 Southern Political Science Association Annual Conferences: 2010-2012; 2014 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management International Conference: 2014 The Fifth Ethnography Conference at Stony Brook University: 2008
COURSES TAUGHT University of Rhode Island PSC 310: Introduction to Political Science Research (Spring 2014) GWS 150: Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies (Fall 2014) PSC 377: Politics of China (Fall 2012, Spring &Fall 2013, Fall 2014) GWS 325: International Women’s Issues (Fall 2013)
Louisiana State University POLI 7964: Laboratory course for Seminar in Quantitative Analysis (2011, 2010, 2009) POLI 2053: Introduction to Comparative Politics (2009) 4 Vita Ping Xu
UNIVERSITY SERVICE Department Service Pi Sigma Alpha Director, 2014-present MPA comprehensive exam review committee, 2013-present Undergraduate faculty advisor, 2013-present
College and University Service Sponsor, Invited talk “How do Americans View the Rising China,” International Education Week, URI Organizer and sponsor, The China Series Events in fall 2015, URI Adviser for the 2016 “Inequality and American Dream” Honors Colloquium at URI Dean’s Advisory Council, College of Arts and Sciences, URI, 2013-present Public Relations Committee Chair, Chinese Culture Club, URI, 2012-present
Ph.D. Committees Karen Shea, 2015 (Member)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIP Manuscript reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Political Behavior Discussant, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings 2014 Chair, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings 2010; 2011; 2014 Chair, Southern Political Science Association Annual Meetings 2011 Member, Midwest Political Science Association, 2008-present Member, American Political Science Association, 2009-present Member, Southern Political Science Association, 2009-present
COMMUNITY SERVICE Chair, Public Relations Committee, Chinese Culture Club at URI, 2012-current President, International Culture Center of Louisiana State University, 2009-2010 President, International Student Association, Louisiana State University, 2009-2010 Chair, Public Relations Committee, International Culture Center, Louisiana State University, 2008-2009 Member, Louisiana Volunteers in Action (LAVA), 2008-2011 Volunteered in disaster shelters during Hurricane Gustav in September 2008 Volunteered in the aftermath of China 5.12 Earthquake in 2008 Volunteered in hosting the Mandarin radio programs at Chinese Radio Amsterdam (CRA) in the Netherlands, 2005- 2007
METHODOLOGY TRAINING AND SKILLS Advanced Methodology Workshop, Bayesian Analysis for Social Science, Texas A&M University, January 12-16, 2011. Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM), National Science Foundation & Washington University, June 2011 Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, June-July 2010 Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, June-July 2009 Computer: Stata, SPSS, R, Endnote, Excel, ACESS, LaTex 5 Vita Ping Xu
Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Fluent)