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{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}'''Leah C. Stokes''' is a Canadian-American political scientist and expert on environmental policy.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=leahstokes |number=1215351469114658816 |date= 9 Jan 2020 |title=I'm Canadian. Thanks. }}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|number=1471945420469256194|user=leahstokes|title=A very happy day for me! After more than a decade living in this country, I'm now an American citizen. Feeling very…|date=17 December 2021}}</ref> She is an associate professor of political science at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leah Stokes |url=https://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/people/leah-stokes |access-date=2021-07-16 |website=polsci.ucsb.edu |language=en}}</ref> 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.
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}'''Leah Cardamore Stokes''' is a Canadian-American political scientist and expert on environmental policy.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=leahstokes |number=1215351469114658816 |date= 9 Jan 2020 |title=I'm Canadian. Thanks. }}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|number=1471945420469256194|user=leahstokes|title=A very happy day for me! After more than a decade living in this country, I'm now an American citizen. Feeling very…|date=17 December 2021}}</ref> She is an associate professor of political science at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leah Stokes |url=https://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/people/leah-stokes |access-date=2021-07-16 |website=polsci.ucsb.edu |language=en}}</ref> 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.


== Early life and education ==
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=== Grants and Finance ===
=== Grants and Finance ===
As of October 2021, Strokes has received financial support from the following organizations, institutions and companies: [[Rockefeller Family Fund]], Balzan Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Schmidt Family Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, [[Democracy Fund]], McKnight Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation among others.<ref>Curriculum Vitae Leah C. Stokes October 2021
As of October 2021, Strokes has received financial support from the following organizations, institutions and companies: [[Rockefeller Family Fund]], Balzan Foundation, [[Hewlett Foundation|William and Flora Hewlett Foundation]], [[Schmidt Family Foundation]], [[Bloomberg Philanthropies]], [[Democracy Fund|Democracy Fu]]Russell Sage Foundation, [[Russell Sage Foundation]] among others.<ref>Curriculum Vitae Leah C. Stokes October 2021


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Leah Stokes
Stokes testifying before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee in 2021
EducationUniversity of Toronto (BS)
Columbia University (MPA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ThesisPower Politics: Renewable Energy Policy Change in US States (2015)
Doctoral advisorLawrence Susskind

Leah Cardamore Stokes is a Canadian-American political scientist and expert on environmental policy.[1][2] She is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[3] 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.

Early life and education

Stokes earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and East Asian studies at the University of Toronto.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7] She has investigated the interaction between public opinion and policy making on renewable energy.[8] 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:

Grants and Finance

As of October 2021, Strokes has received financial support from the following organizations, institutions and companies: Rockefeller Family Fund, Balzan Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Schmidt Family Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Democracy FuRussell Sage Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation among others.[13]

Selected publications

Her publications include:

Scholia has a profile for Leah C. Stokes (Q80364115).
  • 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 (4): 958–974. doi:10.1111/ajps.12220. hdl:1721.1/99561.
  • 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 978-0-19-007426-5.

Stokes has written for The Guardian,[14] The Washington Post,[15] The New York Times,[16] Boston Review,[17] and Los Angeles Times.[18] Her work has been cited in the media, including in Washington Examiner,[19] Mashable,[20] New Hampshire Public Radio,[21] Canada's National Observer,[22] and E&E News.[23]

She has been interviewed on PBS NewsHour,[24] Democracy Now!,[25] the Science Friday radio show,[26] the Scholars Strategy Network podcast No Jargon[27] and the Ezra Klein Show.[28]

In October 2020, Stokes and Katharine Wilkinson started the podcast A Matter of Degrees, in which they discuss the levers of power that have created the climate problem and the tools to fix it.[29]

References

  1. ^ @leahstokes (January 9, 2020). "I'm Canadian. Thanks" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ @leahstokes (December 17, 2021). "A very happy day for me! After more than a decade living in this country, I'm now an American citizen. Feeling very…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "Leah Stokes". polsci.ucsb.edu. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  4. ^ "Leah Stokes". kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu. September 19, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  5. ^ "Leah C. Stokes". EPIC. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  6. ^ "The Mercury Game". mercurygame.scripts.mit.edu. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  7. ^ "Leah Stokes". Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Bolstering public support for state-level renewable energy policies". MIT News. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  9. ^ "Martin Fellows, 2013–2014". Main. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  10. ^ "Award Recipients - 2018". www.mpsanet.org. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  11. ^ "David P. Baron Award". Cambridge Core. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  12. ^ "ITIF Energy Innovation Boot Camp for Early Career Scholars". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ Curriculum Vitae Leah C. Stokes October 2021 https://www.leahstokes.com/s/Stokes-CV-Oct-2021.pdf
  14. ^ "Leah C Stokes | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  15. ^ Stokes, Leah C. "Analysis | With Hurricane Dorian looming, Democratic candidates discuss their climate plans tonight". Washington Post. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  16. ^ Stokes, Leah C. (January 11, 2018). "Opinion | Climate Change in My Backyard". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  17. ^ "The Trouble with Carbon Pricing". Retrieved October 2, 2020.
  18. ^ "Op-Ed: Climate change is behind the global heat wave. Why won't the media say it?". Los Angeles Times. July 15, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  19. ^ Smith, Abby (December 31, 2019). "How Democrats decided climate change was a campaign issue". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  20. ^ Kaufman, Mark (December 3, 2019). "World's carbon emissions grew in 2019 to their highest levels ever". Mashable. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  21. ^ "Where They Stand: How Climate Change Policy Is Shaping The 2020 Race". New Hampshire Public Radio. December 18, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  22. ^ "Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them". Canada's National Observer. December 20, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  23. ^ "'Wildly successful.' How Bob Murray helped denialism". E&E News. December 18, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  24. ^ "California wildfires illustrate the consequences of climate change". PBS NewsHour. September 7, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  25. ^ ""This Is Climate Change": West Coast Fires Scorch Millions of Acres & Blot Out the Sun". Democracy Now! on YouTube. September 10, 2020.
  26. ^ "Are There Jobs In Biden's Ambitious Climate Action?". Science Friday. August 7, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  27. ^ "The Battle over Clean Energy | Scholars Strategy Network". scholars.org. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  28. ^ Klein, Ezra. "How a Climate Bill Becomes a Reality". Vox.
  29. ^ "A Matter of Degrees". podcasts.apple.com.
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