My research interests include the political economy of energy
transitions and climate change, as well as the intersection of
governance and technology development.
Abstract: Policymakers often engage in networks of social relations involving various stakeholders and social actors. I argue that the diversity of policy networks in which decision makers are embedded contributes to compliance and effective policy delivery because heterogeneous connections provide them with more information and alternatives for securing political support. I test this argument by examining local governments’ preferences for renewable energy development in China. Drawing on original network data on local policymakers’ networks, I show that local governments are more likely to comply with the central government’s goal for renewable development when policymakers are embedded in pluralistic policy networks. I also employ a quasi-experimental design and qualitative interviews to explore the mechanisms of engagement. My findings emphasize the structure of embeddedness and draw attention to how policy actors can leverage structural positions within the network to advance their policy agenda.
“When Green Recovery Fails to Consider Coal Pushback: Exploring global coal rebounds, production, and policy retrenchment post Covid-19.” Energy Research & Social Science 101 (2023) (with Fang Zhang and Libo Chen)
“Market-led decline amidst intense politicization.” Book chapter, The Political Economy of Coal: Obstacles to Clean Energy Transitions, Routledge Press (2022) (with Gregory Nemet)
“Investigation
of a coupling coordination degree model between low-carbon development
and air quality in China.” Advances in Climate Change Research
(2021) (with Liu Tianle, Song Qijiao and Qi Ye)
“Evidence
Map: Policy Implications of the Energy Transitions Literature.”
Environmental Research Letters (2020). (with Gregory Nemet)
“Knowledge
spillovers between PV installers can reduce the cost of installing solar
PV.” Energy Policy 144 (2020): 111600. (with George Nemet, Varun
Rai, Rohan Rao)
“The
Policy-Driven Peak and Reduction of China’s Carbon Emissions.”
Advances in Climate Change Research (2020). (with Qi Ye, Nicholas Stern,
He Jiankun, David King, Wu Tong, Liu Tianle)
“Jurisdictional
Air Pollution Regulation in China: A Tragedy of the Regulatory
Anti-commons.” Journal of Cleaner Production 212 (2019): 1054-1061.
(with Shihong Guo)
“The
China Wind Paradox: The Role of State-Owned Enterprises in Wind Power
Investment versus Wind Curtailment.” Energy Policy 127 (2019):
200-212. (with Zhu Mengye, Qi Ye, David Belis, Bart Kerremans)
“China’s
Post-Coal Growth.” Nature Geoscience 9, no. 8 (2016): 564-566. (with
Qi Ye, Nicholas Stern, Tong Wu, Fergus Green)
“The Effects of Expert Selection, Elicitation Design, and R&D Assumptions on Experts’ Estimates of the Future Costs of Photovoltaics.” Energy Policy 80 (2015): 233-243. (with Elena Verdolini, Laura Diaz Anadon, Gregory Nemet)
“To End Coal, Adapt to Regional Realities” Nature (2022): 29-31 (co-signatories with Michael Jakob, Jan Steckel, Gregory Nemet, et al.)
“U.S.
Gas to China: Positive Energy for Bilateral Relations.” Brookings
Op-ed. 2018. (with Qi Ye)
“Wind
Curtailment in China: A Mismatch Between New Technology and Old
Electricity System.” Brookings Press (2017). (with Qi Ye, Zhu
Mengye)
“China’s
Coal Consumption Has Peaked.” China Daily Op-ed. 2017. (with Qi Ye)
“The
End of Coal-Fired Growth in China.” Brookings Op-ed. 2016. (with Qi
Ye)
“State-Based
Childhood Obesity Prevention.” 2013. National Champion of Policy
Solutions Challenge USA. (with Eadie, S., M. Palmer, N. J. Simon, and A.
Walsh)
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