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SUMMARY:Environmental Behavioral Sciences Seminar with Leah Stokes
DESCRIPTION:The Political Economics of Sustainability Conference\n\nhttps:
 //www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/political-economics-sustainability\n\nLocat
 ion: Vidalakis Dining Hall\n\nElectoral Returns from Climate Policy: The 
 Effect of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Manufacturing Investments\n\nPoli
 cy feedback theory predicts concentrated\, visible benefits can generate 
 electoral rewards for the party that enacted them. But climate policy tha
 t centers costs often produces electoral backlash. Can climate policy cen
 tered on benefits generate positive feedback? The Inflation Reduction Act
  of 2022 used manufacturing tax credits to build a domestic clean energy 
 supply chain\, in theory boosting Democratic vote share where factories w
 ere built. We test this using a panel of 435 congressional districts acro
 ss five presidential elections (2008–2024) merged with an original datase
 t of 523 clean energy manufacturing facilities. Two-way fixed-effects est
 imators identify a gain of approximately 1.5 percentage points in 2024 De
 mocratic presidential vote share in districts receiving a facility. Effec
 ts are positive and significant at every level of treatment intensity: li
 near specifications imply approximately 0.4 percentage points per additio
 nal manufacturing facility\, and larger dollar investments are associated
  with larger electoral gains. Climate policy centered on benefits can avo
 id backlash and provide electoral returns.\n\nBio\n\nLeah C. Stokes is th
 e Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at UC S\n\nhtt
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