Dr. H. Daniel Xu is Assistant Professor of Political Science and teaches mostly for the Master of Public Administration Program at ECU. He received his doctorate from Rutgers University and his MPA from Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. As a practitioner, he worked in national/federal and state government in areas of rural development and poverty policy, financial regulation, and public health.
Areas of his research include health policy and rural health services, fiscal policy and revenue systems, intersectoral collaboration, and e-government. His scholarly work has appeared in over a dozen journals and books, such as Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Government Financial Management, and Journal of Health and Human Service Administration, Comparative Health Systems, Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, and Handbook of Research on Leadership and Advocacy for Children and Families in Rural Poverty.
He enjoys sharing his experiences and perspectives with his students in class. He is married with three daughters and likes cooking, fishing and outdoors.
