Yuan (Daniel) Cheng
Urban green space; collaborative governance
Background & Expertise
Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, PhD, is an associate professor and McKnight Presidential Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Cheng's research focuses on a range of theoretical and managerial questions at the nexus of governance, government-nonprofit relationships, co-production and the distributional and performance implications of cross-sector collaboration. He is particularly interested in how government agencies, nonprofits and citizens interact in joint public service provision, and the performance implications of alternative service provision mechanisms. In close collaboration with governmental and community organizations, Cheng is embarking on new research directions to examine the implementation of evidence-based practices in government, the policy impacts of academic research and how to design more inclusive public sector grant-making programs.
Welcoming the 2019 Class of IonE Affiliates
In recent weeks, quick glimpses of TV screens — and, for some, harrowing views from windows — have depicted flames ravaging the Amazon rainforest; hurricane-force wind and rain assailing the Bahamas and the east coast of the United States; and insidious, unseen forces weakening ice sheets and deepening an ever-expanding Arctic sea.