Violent Entanglements: The Pittman-Robertson Act, Firearms, and the Financing of Conservation
Conservation and Society
2022

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea compares the four largest sources of revenue for state wildlife and conservation agencies and demonstrate the growing importance of Pittman-Robertson as gun sales increase.

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Back-Pedaling or Continuing Quietly? Assessing the Impact of ICLEI Membership Termination on Cities’ Sustainability Actions
2016

This study, published in Environmental Politics, questions whether cities’ termination of their ICLEI affiliation diminishes their implementation of sustainability actions.

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Theorizing Command-and-Commodify Regulation: the Case of Species Conservation Banking in the United States
Theory & Society
2017

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea offers a framework for explaining these processes of regulatory marketization, like cap-and-trade and ecological offsetting.

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Regulatory Thickening and the Politics of Market-Oriented Environmental Policy
Environmental Politics
2018

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the linkages between market-based policy instruments and expanding state control over environmental quality.

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Informational Determinants of Large-area Hurricane Evacuations
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
2022

Professor Noah Dormady presents an experimental design that overcomes the counterfactual problem present in all prior published experiments by relying on an actual storm with a known outcome. 

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Portable Innovation, Policy Wormholes, and Innovation Diffusion
2019

This article in Public Administration Review explores the effects of city managers' career paths on the diffusion of climate policy innovation among municipal governments in the United States.

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