Journal Articles

This article, authored by BESI faculty affiliate Neil Fligstein and Berkeley Sociology graduate student Janna Z. Huang and published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews, examines and compares the various strategies employed by key segments of this finance industry to foster a more sustainable economy.

Today's critiques about geography in a world influenced by AI shadow debates from two decades ago, argues geographer and BESI Technology Network affiliate Clancy Wilmott in an article for the journal Dialogues in Human Geography. By returning to these debates, as well as critique by Black, queer, and Indigenous computing seen in other disciplines, geographers have the opportunity to deeply influence the future of computation via a situated, critical geographical thought and action.

In a study published in the American Journal of Political Science, BESI Climate participating faculty member Amanda Clayton and her co-authors investigate how women's representation affects climate deliberations, using community-managed forests in Malawi as a test case.

Sarang Shah, a Ph.D. candidate in political science and a Designated Emphasis in Political Economy student, and his co-author, Eitan Hersh, recently conducted a survey of American firm leaders' political alignment. The two present their results in a May 2025 article in the British Journal of Political Science.

In their paper for the journal Energy Policy, BESI senior researcher Sam Trachtman, DE student Irem Inal, and climate research lead Jonas Meckling find that the political landscape is ripe for ambitious decarbonization policy.

In a new analysis published in Nature Energy, BESI Climate research lead Jonas Meckling and his co-authors find that central bank climate risk management may be responsive to political demands.

Economic sociologist and BESI faculty affiliate Neil Fligstein argues we need new approaches that center on mechanisms of economic and political innovation and change to understand how and if the energy transition will happen.

BESI Climate affiliated faculty member Ryan Brutger and Designated Emphasis in Political Economy student Daniel Lobo co-authored this article for the American Political Science Review, which reviews their survey of white and Black Americans on their attitudes toward trade.

Why are some governments more effective in promoting economic change than others? In a new paper for The Journal of Politics, BESI Climate research lead Jonas Meckling and his-co-authors hypothesize that institutions can facilitate economic transformation through two primary mechanisms: insulation and compensation.

In a February 2025 article for The Journal of Law and Economics, Berkeley Law assistant professor and BESI faculty affiliate David Hausman examines the effects of the removal of an option to recommend release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's risk assessment tool on actual release decisions.

In their new paper for Nature Communications, BESI Climate research lead Jonas Meckling and Designated Emphasis in Political Economy student Ari Benkler take stock of different approaches to climate policymaking.

In an October 29, 2024, article for American Political Science Review, BESI participating faculty member Hunter E. Rendleman and her co-author Jesse Yoder study how public policies influence citizens' political attitudes and behavior using the rollout of state-level earned income tax credit (EITC) programs. The staggered roll-out provides opportunity to estimate the causal effect of a public policy program on elections, voter behavior, and attitudes about the government.