Welcome

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I am an associate professor of political science at the University of California Santa Barbara. My research explores the politics of climate change here in the United States. and around the world. My work has been published in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Nature Climate Change, Political Science Research Methods, Nature Energy and elsewhere. My second book, Carbon Captured: How Labor and Business Control Climate Politics, is available from MIT Press.

At UCSB, I am the director of The 2035 Initiative, I co-run the Energy and Environment Transitions (ENVENT) Lab.