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Journal article

When do states forge technological change in mature industries?

Journal article

State capacity is central to the provision of public goods, including environmental protection…

Journal article

Many economists have long held that carbon pricing—either through a carbon tax or cap-and-trade—is the most cost-effective way to decarbonize energy systems…

Journal article

The emerging transition to renewable energy, such as wind and solar photovoltaics, creates winners and losers in electricity markets. Here, we provide the first cross-national study of renewable energy ownership in the EU and the US.

Forum article

Jane Flegal on responsible solar geoengineering research: What does responsibility mean, and for whom?

Journal articles, ISQ and NPE

How the globalization of solar shaped business interests, and why policymakers created trade barriers nonetheless.

Journal article, EJIR

What are the origins of global regulation? This article proposes that the developmental state — the state investing in economic development — can be a source of global environmental regulation.

Journal article, Energy Policy

While the US and China cooperated in renewable energy development, since 2011 the countries have engaged in a protracted and major trade dispute in the solar photovoltaics industry…

Journal article, Earth’s Future

Jane Flegal and co-authors on public views and values about solar geoengineering…

Journal article, Environmental Politics

Since the 1970s, European and US regulators have used different varieties of market-based environmental policy, which are rooted in competing types of liberalism: price instruments and quantity instruments…