Sung Eun Kim

TL;DR: The authors found evidence that voters residing in areas affected by the tariffs were more likely to learn about the trade war, recognize its adverse impact, and assign the Republicans responsibility for the escalating dispute.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors found that when the policy involved substantial class or distributive conflicts and bureaucratic friction, top-down pressure for compliance was a dominant driver for local policy adoption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use data from lobbying disclosure reports on all major climate bills introduced during the 111th Congress (2009-2010) and link the disclosure reports to detailed data on the fuel choices of all electric utilities in the United States along with socioeconomic, institutional, and political data from the states where the utilities operate.

TL;DR: The effects of access to natural resources creates a political conflict between the expected economic winners and their environmental opponents as mentioned in this paper, but the effects of such conflict on policy and politics remain unclosed.