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DESCRIPTION:Electoral Returns from Climate Policy: The Effect of the Inflat
 ion Reduction Act’s Manufacturing Investments\n\nPolicy feedback theory 
 predicts concentrated\, visible benefits can generate electoral rewards fo
 r the party that enacted them. But climate policy that centers costs often
  produces electoral backlash. Can climate policy centered on benefits gene
 rate positive feedback? The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 used manufactu
 ring tax credits to build a domestic clean energy supply chain\, in theory
  boosting Democratic vote share where factories were built. We test this u
 sing a panel of 435 congressional districts across five presidential elect
 ions (2008–2024) merged with an original dataset of 523 clean energy man
 ufacturing facilities. Two-way fixed-effects estimators identify a gain of
  approximately 1.5 percentage points in 2024 Democratic presidential vote 
 share in districts receiving a facility. Effects are positive and signific
 ant at every level of treatment intensity: linear specifications imply app
 roximately 0.4 percentage points per additional manufacturing facility\, a
 nd larger dollar investments are associated with larger electoral gains. C
 limate policy centered on benefits can avoid backlash and provide electora
 l returns.\n\nBio\n\nLeah C. Stokes is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor 
 of Environmental Politics at UC Santa Barbara and the author of The Carbon
  Wave: A Story of Democracy\, Parenthood\, and the Race to Protect Our Pla
 net. She has championed climate policy in the United States at all levels 
 of government and was selected for Time Magazine’s Time100 Next list and
  Business Insider’s top 30 global climate leaders. Trained at MIT\, Colu
 mbia\, and the University of Toronto\, Stokes has been published in top sc
 holarly journals\, as well as The New York Times\, Washington Post\, and o
 ther popular media outlets. A recipient of a Harvard University Radcliffe 
 Fellowship\, she is also the author of the award-winning Short Circuiting 
 Policy\, which was listed as one of the top five climate books in 2020 by 
 The New York Times. She is also a co-host of the climate podcast “A Matt
 er of Degrees.”
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SUMMARY:Environmental Behavioral Sciences Seminar with Leah Stokes
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 iences-seminar-with-leah-stokes
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