Virtual Biweekly EPG Seminars

December 5

• Climate Change, Political Conflict, and Democratic Resilience
  • Austin Beacham (Georgia Institue of Technology), Christina J. Schneider (UCSD), and Emilie M. Hafner-Burton (UCSD)
• Chasing the Sun: The Political Economy of Solar Industry Investment in the Global South
  • Ishana Ratan (UC Berkeley)

November 7

• Cost, Risk, and Threat: The Material & Contextual Factors Driving Climate Policy Preferences
  • Max Bradley (EUI)
• More than Symbols : The Effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support
  • Théodore Tallent (Sciences Po), Malo Jan (Sciences Po), and Luis Sattelmayer (Sciences Po)

November 21

• Towards an environmental welfare state? Protecting populations against environmental risks and disasters in the age of the climate crisis.
• Lydie Cabane (Leiden University) and Anne Laure Beaussier (Sciences Po)
• The Role of Social Protection for a Just Transition in Developing and Emerging Economies
• Katrin Gasior (Southern African Social Policy Research Insights)

October 10

• Greening Criminal Records: How Emission Reduction Commitments Mitigate Corporate Scandals
  • Lorenzo Crippa (University of Glasgow) and Dafni Kalatzi Pantera (University of Birmingham)
• Investigating the role of foundations in environmental city networks
  • Marielle Papin (MacEwan University)

October 25

• Does Warm Weather Cool Voters Down? How Temperature Fluctuations Impact Voting and Climate Concerns
• Maria Cotofan (King’s College London) Karly Kuralbayeva (King’s College London), and Konstantinos Matakos (King’s College London and Harvard)
• Measuring Climate Change Salience in Political Manifestos: A Computational Text Analysis Approach
• Mary Sanford (RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment)

March 7

• Ballots, Bullets, and Trees: Election Timing and Violence Against Environmentalists
  • Anthony Calacino (Oxford)
• Mitigating future uncertainties, but at what price? Myopic citizens, short-term policy cost, and long-term policy effectiveness
  • Susanne Rhein (ETH Zürich)

February 8

• Natural disasters and local bureaucracy
  • Preeti Nambiar (Vanderbilt)
• Can designated climate ministries help to fight climate change?
  • Yves Steinebach (Oslo)

February 22

• Are Long-Term Climate Mitigation Ambitions Credible?
  • Detlef Sprinz (Potsdam)
• Is the international climate regime complex effective? Identifying and explaining patterns of diffusion in climate change mitigation policy
  • Heather Ba (Missouri)

January 25

• The Effect of Racial Resentment and Out-Group Cues on Support for Climate Policy Among White Americans
  • Eric Parajon (UNC)
• Priorities and Pocketbooks: Mapping Issue Prioritization and Willingness to Pay for Local Climate Action
  • Erich Scheuch (Yale)

December 7

• Green Collars at the Voting Booth: Material Interest and Environmentalist Voting
  • Enrico Cavallotti (Trinity College Dublin), Italo Colantone (Bocconi), Piero Stanig (Bocconi), Francesco Vona (University of Milan)
• Europeans’ climate worry: Increased yet more politicised
  • John Kenny (UEA) and Stephen Fisher (Oxford)

November 9

• Harmonizing international commitments with domestic policymaking- the role of two-level connectors and networking structure
  • Karin Ingold (University of Bern) and Marlene Kammerer (University of Bern)
• Adding Fuel to the Fire: The Electoral Impact of Induced Earthquakes
  • Jordan H. McAllister (University of Kentucky) and Afiq bin Oslan (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance)

November 23

• When Does Climate Finance Respond to Local Needs?
  • Ruth Carlitz (University of Amsterdam)
• Inequalities at the Crossroads: Unpacking the Role of Intersectionality in Material Hardship
  • Trevor Memmott (Indiana University)

October 12

• Extractive “Protectionism”? Natural Resource Dependence and Protected Area Designation
  • Austin Beacham (UCSD)
• Do Pledges Bind? The Mass Politics of International Climate Targets
  • Don Casler (UIUC), Richard Clark (Cornell), and Noah Zucker (LSE)

October 26

• Qualitative Bayesian Reasoning for Climate Studies
  • Tasha Fairfield (LSE)
• Preference Updating Under Uncertainty: Evidence from Responses to Global Warming
  • Alexander F. Gazmararian (Princeton University) and Helen Milner (Princeton University)

September 28

• The Greener Gender: Women Politicians and Deforestation
  • Kathryn Baragwanath (Harvard University and Australian Catholic University), Xixi Zheng (UCSD)
• Climate policy ambition in cross-national comparison: a multi-method analysis
  • Yitong Ye (University of Glasgow), Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow), and Neil Munro (University of Glasgow)

March 2

• How do International NGOs facilitate environmental governance of China’s overseas development?
  • May Farid (Stanford University)
• Women’s Human Rights and Climate Change Action: Context Bangladesh
  • M. Aynal Haque (University of Connecticut)

March 16

• Green Government Procurements Through the Lens of Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Performance
  • Melisa Perut (UC Irvine)
• The electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany
  • Sophia Stutzmann (University of Konstanz)

March 30

• Partisanship and the Environmental Policy Decisions of State Public Utility Commissions
  • Jared Heern (Brown University)
• Reclaiming Homes: Disaster policy implications on displacement in Puerto Rico
  • Wendy Prudencio (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

February 2

• Conserving What’s Left: The Political Economy of Protected Area Location
  • Austin Beacham (UC San Diego)
• Aid withdrawal: theory and evidence from international climate politics
  • Cleo O’Brien-Udry (Yale University)

February 16

• Asymmetric migration response: an application to welfare analysis in climate change
  • Pin Sun (Pennsylvania State University)
• Do parties respond to natural disasters?
  • Tim Wappenhans (Humboldt University Berlin)

December 1

• Policy preferences in the presence of policy goals
  • Gracia Brückmann (University of Bern)
• Economic Incentives for Coastal Homeowner Adaptations to Climate Change
  • Bill Kakenmaster (University of Notre Dame)

November 3

• Reversals of State Capacity: Norms and Political Disruption
  • Daniel Goldstein (European University Institute)
• Non-material preferences towards FDI: do individuals reject investment from socially irresponsible firms?
  • Carolina Moehlecke (FGV School of International Relations)

November 17

• Balancing Environment and Growth: Central Priority Shift, Incentive Calibration, and Pollution Control in China
  • Xiaoshu Gui (Duke University)
• The Climate Crisis, Policy Distraction, and Support for Green Taxation
  • Julian Limberg (King’s College London)

October 6

• Perceived Relative Income and Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods: An Application to Air Pollution
  • Angelika Budjan (University of Stuttgart)
• Decarbonizing the Dragon: Policy community and the power of network
  • Jiaqi Lu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

October 20

• Firms and Information Environment of Climate Regime
  • Dahyun Choi (Princeton University)
• Domestic Drivers of Party Competition over Climate Policies
  • Maximilian Lüth (University of Lucerne)

March 10

• Temperature, Conflict and Social Capital in Africa
  • Garrett Albistegui (Stanford University)
• Climate Related Hazards: Focusing Events for More Ambitious Paris Agreement Climate Pledges
  • Lauri Peterson (Uppsala University)

March 24

• An Unexpected Climate Activist: Central Banks and the Politics of the Climate-Neutral Economy
  • Katrijn Siderius (Goethe University Frankfurt)
• Turning Green: The behavioural consequences of environmental protests
  • António Valentim (Humboldt University Berlin)

February 10

• Globalization and Sustainable Development: A multidimensional approach
  • Tung K. Dao (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• “Leading with the International” and the Stringency Gap Between Nations’ Outward-Looking and Domestic Climate Policies
  • Todd Eisenstadt (American University) and Jennifer Lopez (American University)

February 24

• Overcoming institutional barriers of energy transitions: policy legacies and greening policies in Argentina and Chile (2000-2020)
  • Santiago Cunial (University of Pennsylvania)
• Globalization’s Effect on Environmental Activism
  • Dafni Kalatzi Pantera (University of Essex)

December 2

• Who’s afraid of more ambitious climate policy? Distributional consequences and inequality perceptions in ratcheting up for the Paris Agreement
  • Lena Maria Schaffer (University of Lucerne)

• No Diffusion at All: Trade, Free Riding, and Government Underspending on Environmental Innovation
  • Muzhou Zhang (University of Essex)

November 4

• Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Global Warming
  • Alexander F. Gazmararian (Princeton University) and Helen V. Milner (Princeton University)

• Coping Practices and the Spatial Dimension of Authority Design: The Case of Environmental Policy Enforcement
  • Constantin Kaplaner (LMU Munich) and Yves Steinebach (LMU Munich)

November 18

• Private adaptation to climate risks: Evidence from the world’s largest mining companies
  • Maria-Therese Gustafsson (Stockholm University), Jorge Ernesto Rodriguez Morales (Stockholm University), and Lisa M. Dellmuth (Stockholm University)

• Local weather extremes and political attitudes on climate policy – Evidence from Switzerland
  • Franziska Quoß (ETH Zürich) and Lukas Rudolph (LMU Munich)

October 7

• Domestic Autonomy and Environmental International Non-Governmental Organizations: A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss
  • Jamie M. Sommer (University of South Florida)

• Identity and the Structure of Climate Risk Preferences
  • Noah Zucker (Columbia University)

October 21

• Status Symbols in Social Space: Inflated Lives, Clean Tech Privilege, and Electric Cars in Washington State
  • Jean Léon Boucher (Dublin City University) and Walter Mérida (University of British Columbia)

• Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans
  • Sanya Bery (Wesleyan University) and Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University)

March 11

• The Power of Leadership: Implementation Strategies and Low-Carbon Policy Experimentation in Chinese Cities
  • Weila Gong (TU Munich)

• The role of international organizations in equitable planned relocation
  • Gabriela Nagle Alverio (Duke), Suki H. Hoagland (Stanford), Erin Coughlan de Perez (Red Cross Crescent Climate Centre), and Katharine J. Mach (Miami)

March 25

• Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia
  • Elías Cisneros (Göttingen), Krisztina Kis-Katos (Göttingen), and Nunung Nuryartono (Bogor)

• Ecology of Ecological NGOs: Agenda Setting in the Global Governance of Wildlife
  • Takumi Shibaike (European University Institute)

February 11

• Environmental commitments in different types of democracies: The role of liberal, deliberative and social-liberal politics
  • Sverker Jagers (Gothenburg) and Marina Povitkina (Oslo)

• How Much Do People Value Future Generations? Climate Change, Trust, and Public Support for Future-Oriented Policies
  • Malcolm Fairbrother (Umeå University), Gustaf Arrhenius (Stockholm), Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), and Tim Campbell (Institute for Future Studies)

February 25

• The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Energy Policy from the Oil Crises to Climate Change
  • Jared Finnegan (UC Berkeley), Phillip Lipscy (University of Toronto), Jonas Meckling (UC Berkeley), and Florence Metz (University of Twente)

• Beyond Lights: The Changing Impact of Rural Electrification in Indian Agriculture
  • Sudatta Ray (Stanford)

January 14

• Trade Effects of Environmental Agreements: Uncovering De Facto Environmental Clubs
  • Clara Brandi (German Development Institute), Jean-Frédéric Morin (Laval University), Jakob Schwab (German Development Institute)

• Institutional Roots of International Alliances: Party Groupings and Position Similarity at Global Climate Negotiations
  • Federica Genovese (Essex), Richard J. McAlexander (UPenn), Johannes Urpelainen (Johns Hopkins SAIS)

January 28

• Who is delaying state climate action? Interest groups and coalitions in legislative struggles
  • Trevor Culhane, Galen Hall, and J. Timmons Roberts (Brown)

• The Effectiveness of Network Administrative Organization in Governing Inter-jurisdictional Nature Resource
  • Yixin Liu (FSU) and Chao Tan (Guandong Research Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower)

December 10

• Reporting on Climate-Change Action: Paris Agreement, Fridays for Future and the Framing in Public News Worldwide
  • Lisa Lechner (University of Innsbruck)

• Developing a continuous climate concern scale for use in experimental research
  • Parrish Bergquist (Georgetown University)

November 12

• Conservation and positive spillovers on corruption: Establishment of protected areas across Africa reduced local bribery
  • Aksel Sundström (University of Gothenburg)
• Bureaucratic Capacity Building and Climate Cooperation
  • Yves Steinebach (LMU)

November 19

• Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol
  • Shiming Yang (University of Southern California)

• Cheaters, market leaders, standard setters or rule-breakers? The who’s who of the global waste regime: Chinese and European perspectives on the Waste Ban
  • Anran Luo (University of Freiburg)

October 1

• “Leave It As It Is:” Network Effects on Protected Lands
  • Darren Hawkins (Brigham Young University)
• Acres for the Affluent: How Governments and Nonprofits Conserve Land
  • Samantha Zuhlke (Texas A&M)

October 15

• The Paradox of Climate Concern: Declining Mitigation Support after Natural Disasters
  • Talbot Andrews (Princeton University)
• Temperature shocks and climate policy
  • Sam Rowan (Concordia University)

October 29

• Diffusing Climate Frames in International Organizations
  • Karina Shyrokykh (Stockholm University)
• Understanding Network Building Strategy in Environmental Governance
  • Kristin Olofsson (Oklahoma State University)