Upstream governance, institutional mismatch, and rule formation in emerging technology and sustainability transitions.

Sina Jangjoo

I am an incoming tenure-track Assistant Professor of Public Administration at The University of Texas at Tyler, beginning Fall 2026, and a PhD candidate in Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University.

My research sits at the intersection of public administration, policy process, science, technology, and environmental policy, urban governance, nonprofit studies, collaborative governance, and institutional design.

How new problems become governable

My work develops Contested Rule Formation to explain how actors classify new problems, settle authority, build venues, and create procedural rules before stable policy systems fully exist.

Research approach

Across projects, I focus on how governance becomes empirically visible: in rule objects, venue architectures, public records, procurement templates, program manuals, administrative routines, reporting obligations, and procedures for review and correction.

Current agenda

The agenda connects CRF, AI governance, clean-energy rule location, nonprofit shadow rule-making, collaborative governance attention budgets, and systems modeling of design–implementation gaps.