Leah Cardamore Stokes is assistant professor of political science at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research and writing on climate change and energy policy has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, as well as numerous scholarly journals.
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In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in T... SEE MORE