Energy and Environment Policy Lab at UC Berkeley, Jonas Meckling
Article, Jacobin The Sunrise Movement deserves enormous credit for putting the Green New Deal on the national political agenda. But the organization seems to have hit a wall as of late. It may be time for Sunrise to pursue a new
Jonas Meckling received the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Best Paper on Public Policy Award, along with his co-author Jonas Nahm from Johns Hopkins University. The paper, “Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy,” discusses the ability
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Scholars have long understood the American states as “laboratories of democracy,” exploring how mechanisms of learning and competition lead to the diffusion of successful state policy experiments across the federal system.
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We introduce the notion of strategic state capacity to explain why countries with similar levels of bureaucratic capacity vary in climate policy goal attainment.