Published or Forthcoming
Cain, Bruce E., and Shiran Victoria Shen (corresponding and co-first author). 2027.
“Taking Government Seriously in Climate Adaptation Politics.”
Annual Review of Political Science 30. Forthcoming.
Shen, Shiran Victoria, Qi Wang, and Bing Zhang. 2026.
“Regularized Campaigns as a New Institution for Effective Governance.” [PDF]
Policy Studies Journal 54 (1): e70052.
Awards: contributed to work recognized by the APPAM World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance
Profiled: Governance and Local Development Policy Brief • Policy Studies Journal Blog
Featured: UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Working Paper • Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability Podcast • The University of Hong Kong Philip K. H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law Blog
Shen, Shiran Victoria. 2026.
“Governing Policy Experiments in Chinese Cities: Lessons on Effective Climate Mitigation.” [PDF]
Policy Studies Journal 54 (3): e70026.
Shen, Shiran Victoria. 2025.
“The 2021 Henan Flood Increased Citizen Demand for Government-Led Climate Change Adaptation in China.” (open access)
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 730. (Nature Portfolio)
Profiled: America Adapts Podcast • Governance and Local Development Policy Brief • Springer Nature “Behind the Paper” • ScienMag
Featured: Carbon Brief • Dialogue Earth • Nature Collection on “Climate adaptation and resilience in urban and rural communities”
Shen, Shiran Victoria. 2025.
“Political Will as a Source of Policy Innovation.” [PDF]
Policy Studies Journal 53 (1): 185–200.
Profiled: Policy Studies Journal Blog
Shen, Shiran Victoria. 2024.
“Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change?” (open access)
PS: Political Science & Politics 57 (4): 487–92.
Featured: APSA Political Science Now Blog • Whiskyabend Podcast
Buntaine, Mark T., Polycarp Komakech, and Shiran Victoria Shen (co-first author). 2024.
“Social Competition Drives Collective Action to Reduce Informal Waste Burning in Uganda.” (open access)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (23): e2319712121.
Awards: APSA Evan Ringquist Award • contributed to work recognized by the APPAM World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance
Profiled: AirQo Africa • VoxDev
Shen, Shiran Victoria. 2021.
“Integrating Political Science into Climate Modeling: An Example of Internalizing the Costs of Climate-Induced Violence in the Optimal Management of the Climate.” (open access)
Sustainability 13: 10587.
Featured: The World Bank Feature Story
Kopas, Jacob, Erin York, Xiaomeng Jin, S. P. Harish, Ryan Kennedy, Shiran Victoria Shen, and Johannes Urpelainen. 2020.
“Environmental Justice in India: Incidence of Air Pollution from Coal-Fired Power Plants.” [PDF]
Ecological Economics 176: 106711.
Cited: IMF • Inter-American Development Bank • Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Pakistan)
Discussed: Environmental Health Perspectives • The Leaflet
Liao, Xianchun, Shiran Victoria Shen, and Xunpeng Shi. 2020.
“The Effects of Behavioral Intention on the Choice to Purchase Energy-Saving Appliances in China: The Role of Environmental Attitude, Concern, and Perceived Psychological Benefits in Shaping Intention.” [PDF]
Energy Efficiency 13 (1): 33–49.
Cited: IPCC AR6
Shen, Shiran Victoria, Bruce E. Cain, and Iris Hui. 2019.
“Public Receptivity in China Towards Wind Energy Generators: A Survey Experimental Approach.” [PDF]
Energy Policy 129: 619–27.
Profiled: Caixin (财新）
Shao, Qinglong, and Shiran Victoria Shen. 2017.
“When Reduced Working Time Harms the Environment: A Panel Threshold Analysis for EU-15, 1970–2010.” [PDF]
Journal of Cleaner Production 147: 319–29.
Cited: IPCC AR6 • German Environment Agency
Discussed: Forbes • Greenpeace • La Tribune • Sud Ouest • The Conversation • The Guardian
Book Reviews
Shen, Shiran Victoria. 2026.
Review of Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China. [PDF]
The China Journal 95: 164–65.
Invited References
Shen, Shiran Victoria. Forthcoming.
“Sustainability and Cities.”
Oxford Bibliographies.
Archived
Shen, Shiran Victoria.
“The Political Pollution Cycle.” [PDF revised working paper (last updated April 2020)] [PDF original submission (July 2015)]
Submitted to a peer-reviewed journal (July 2015); recipient of the APSA Paul A. Sabatier and SPSA Malcolm Jewell Awards. Core ideas were later developed in The Political Regulation Wave (Cambridge University Press, 2022). These versions are posted to document authorship and priority. Citation guidance: cite The Political Regulation Wave (2022); for priority/timeline cite my Ph.D. dissertation (2018) (and, if relevant, the July 2015 submission).