Colleagues,
I am trying to assemble a panel for APSA in Sept 2024 in Philadelphia (details here).
Two topics possible:
If you are interested and can send along an abstract, title, name, affiliation, other contact information, that would be great. Junior scholars particularly welcome.
Also, if anyone would want to be a discussant or chair, please me in touch.
Best and hope to hear from some of you,
Ron
Ronald Mitchell, Professor
Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies
University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/
The Inter-temporal Trade-off, the “Electoral Connection” in Climate Policy and National Renewable Energy Mixes
By Todd A. Eisenstadt, Le Bao, Jennifer Lopez and Cindy Ragab
Abstract: Despite the multitude of international and national pledges of Net Zero Emissions by 2050, few large national economies are likely to meet them, and analysts are hard-pressed to explain how and whether nations might decarbonize. This article shows, for the first time, the existence of an “electoral connection” and political business cycles relating to climate policy; that national executives in their last terms in office design more ambitious decarbonization policies for the longer term. We argue that last-term executives can focus less on immediate interest group and constituency demands needed for re-election and more on their own ethics and legacies. Our statistical evidence is robsut robust when we test the effects of the executive’s last term on renewable energy generation and capacity across 160 national economies. We conclude by advocating for term limits, or at least for insulating climate policy-making executives from the short-term imperatives of workaday interest group pressures.
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Apologies for repost – but to clarify the two possible topics I *intended*
Ron
From: Ronald Mitchell
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2023 9:30 AM
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Cc: Ronald Mitchell <rmit...@uoregon.edu>
All, We have a panel proposed for APSA in Sept in Philadelphia that would benefit by having one more paper on climate adaptation. If you have a paper, please send me the following asap and most likely I can add you to the panel. But I must receive it in the next couple of days. Thanks, Ron
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From: Ronald Mitchell <rmit...@uoregon.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2023 9:30 AM
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Cc: Ronald Mitchell <rmit...@uoregon.edu>
Subject: APSA panel? climate adaptation &/or env'l treaties
Colleagues,