Expertise: Environmental policy and politics in East Asia, with a focus on China and Taiwan; Microcredit programs in the U.S. and abroad; Land conservation; Environmental governance and economic development; Local government, particularly in Southern California; Public pensions; Governance reform; Redevelopment agencies

Shui-Yan Tang is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Public Administration at the Sol Price School of Public Policy. His main research interests include institutional analysis and design, common-pool resource governance, environmental regulation enforcement, and environmental politics and policy. He is the co-author of Regulatory Styles, Society, and Environmental Governance in China(Oxford: Routledge, 2014) and the author of Institutions and Collective Action: Self-Governance in Irrigation(San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 1992).