Folks, You probably noticed this piece in the New York Times today: Coal Country Is Wary of Hillary Clinton’s Pledge to Help http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/us/politics/coal-country-is-wary-of-hillary-clintons-pledge-to-help.html?hpw&rref=us&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well We outlined a theoretical construct, Embedded Environmentalism, for this sort of a compensation policy first in a short paper, "We feel your pain: Environmentalists, Coal miners, and “embedded environmentalism” ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286779959_We_feel_your_pain_Environmentalists_Coal_miners_and_embedded_environmentalism) and then in a Monkey Cage Blog: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/01/18/coal-is-losing-political-power-so-why-is-hillary-clinton-proposing-30-billion-to-help-coal-communities/ We are in the process of systematically testing the "embedded environmentalism" argument and would like to learn more about the literature on the "compensation hypothesis" in the realm of environmental politics (we are aware of the "just transitions" literature). Please email me directly on this subject. Thanks, Aseem ******************************************************************** Aseem Prakash Professor, Department of Political Science Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics 39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3530 http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/ http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/
