Leah Stokes

Leah C. Stokes is a Canadian[1] political scientist and expert on environmental policy. She is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Stokes investigates the politics of energy and environmental policy in the United States. She regularly writes about energy and climate policy for newspapers and on social media.

Leah C. Stokes
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (BSc)
Columbia University (MPA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ThesisPower politics : renewable energy policy change in US states (2015)
Doctoral advisorLawrence Susskind

Early life and education

Stokes earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and East Asian studies at the University of Toronto.[2] She completed a Master of Public Administration at Columbia University. After graduating, Stokes worked at Resources for the Future. She went on to work at the Parliament of Canada.[3] Her role involved policy analysis for Members of Parliament working on the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee, and the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs. In 2010, Stokes moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned a master's degree and a doctorate under the supervision of Lawrence Susskind. At MIT, Stokes created environmental policy curriculum, including The Mercury Game, a treaty negotiation that has been used by over 100 universities around the world.[4]

Career

In 2015, Stokes joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on energy policy and environmental policy in the United States.[5] She has investigated the interaction between public opinion and policy making on renewable energy.[6] She has also looked at what determines public opinion in particular states, and how the design and presentation of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) changes public support for a particular policy. She has also published research on backlash against renewable energy projects. Her recent work examines Congressional staff and their understanding of public opinion.

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include:

Selected publications

Her publications include:

  • Stokes, Leah C. (2013). "The politics of renewable energy policies: The case of feed-in tariffs in Ontario, Canada". Energy Policy. 56: 490–500. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.01.009.
  • Stokes, Leah C. (2016). "Electoral backlash against climate policy: A natural experiment on retrospective voting and local resistance to public policy". American Journal of Political Science. 60: 958–974. doi:10.1111/ajps.12220.
  • Stokes, Leah (2020). Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190074265.

Stokes has written for The Guardian,[11] The Washington Post,[12] The New York Times,[13] Boston Review, [14] and The Los Angeles Times,[15] and her work is regularly cited in the media, including in The Washington Examiner,[16] Mashable,[17] New Hampshire Public Radio,[18] the National Observer,[19] and E&E News.[20]

She has been interviewed on PBS NewsHour,[21] Democracy Now!,[22] the Science Friday radio show,[23] the Scholars Strategy Network podcast No Jargon[24] and the Ezra Klein Show.[25]

In October, 2020, Stokes and Katharine Wilkinson started "A Matter of Degrees" podcast, where they discuss the levers of power that have created the climate problem, and the tools to fix it.[26]

References
  1. @leahstokes (9 Jan 2020). "I'm Canadian. Thanks" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. "Leah Stokes". kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu. 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  3. "Leah C. Stokes". EPIC. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  4. "The Mercury Game". mercurygame.scripts.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  5. "Leah Stokes". Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  6. "Bolstering public support for state-level renewable energy policies". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  7. "Martin Fellows, 2013–2014". Main. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  8. "Award Recipients - 2018". www.mpsanet.org. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  9. "David P. Baron Award". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  10. "ITIF Energy Innovation Boot Camp for Early Career Scholars". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. "Leah C Stokes | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  12. Stokes, Leah C. "Analysis | With Hurricane Dorian looming, Democratic candidates discuss their climate plans tonight". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  13. Stokes, Leah C. (2018-01-11). "Opinion | Climate Change in My Backyard". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  14. "The Trouble with Carbon Pricing". Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  15. "Op-Ed: Climate change is behind the global heat wave. Why won't the media say it?". Los Angeles Times. 2018-07-15. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  16. Smith, Abby (31 December 2019). "How Democrats decided climate change was a campaign issue". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  17. Kaufman, Mark (3 December 2019). "World's carbon emissions grew in 2019 to their highest levels ever". Mashable. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  18. "Where They Stand: How Climate Change Policy Is Shaping The 2020 Race". New Hampshire Public Radio. 18 December 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  19. "Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them". Canada's National Observer. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  20. "'Wildly successful.' How Bob Murray helped denialism". E&E News. 18 December 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  21. "California wildfires illustrate the consequences of climate change". PBS NewsHour. 2020-09-07. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  22. ""This Is Climate Change": West Coast Fires Scorch Millions of Acres & Blot Out the Sun". Democracy Now! on YouTube. 2020-09-10.
  23. "Are There Jobs In Biden's Ambitious Climate Action?". Science Friday. 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  24. "The Battle over Clean Energy | Scholars Strategy Network". scholars.org. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  25. Klein, Ezra. "How a Climate Bill Becomes a Reality". Vox.
  26. "A Matter of Degrees". podcasts.apple.com.
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