International Climate Cooperation

Climate change mitigation is a global collective action problem, yet the shift from the Kyoto Protocol’s binding targets to the Paris Agreement’s voluntary nationally determined contributions has fundamentally changed how international cooperation works. My research in this area examines public support for unilateral versus reciprocal climate policy — whether citizens are willing to support domestic action even when other countries fail to do their part. Using survey experiments in countries including China and the United States, this work shows that public support for climate action is surprisingly resilient to information about other countries' non-compliance, with important implications for the political sustainability of the Paris approach.

Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods - How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy

Global Environmental Politics (2022)

Understanding public support for domestic contributions to global collective goods. Results from a survey experiment on carbon taxation in Japan

Climatic Change (2021)

Could revenue recycling make effective carbon taxation politically feasible?

Science Advances (2019)

Commitment failures are unlikely to undermine public support for the Paris agreement

Nature Climate Change (2019)

How strong is public support for unilateral climate policy and what drives it?

WIREs Climate Change (2017)

Unilateral or Reciprocal Climate Policy? Experimental Evidence from China

Politics and Governance (2016)