He supervised more Ph.D. students than any other faculty member in the University at Albany, SUNY's sociology department.
[1] During his career, he also served as chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance.
Richard A. Davis evaluated Liska's revisions of the Fishbein/Ajzen model using a study[5] where the 1970 educational attainments of a set of high school students were modeled, based on information collected in 1955 when the students were high school sophomores.
Davis found partial support for the Fishbein/Ajzen model, since in predicting a sophomore's ultimate educational attainment "behavioral intentions maintain their centrality.
Davis concluded that, despite the valuable parsimony of the Fishbein/Ajzen model, "Liska's revisions have been supported in large measure."