Happy to see a paper on this.

To development economists at least, it is very obvious that allocating funds to people for *saying* they are going to do green things, with very little accountability, is going to underperform. 1/2

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Why are thousands of people protesting in Taiwan? Great explainer by Erin Hale
aje.io/q84wq2 via Al Jazeera English

New article 'US-skepticism and transnational conspiracy in the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election' with Herbert Chang 張賀鈞 is now on HKS Misinformation Review and is selected to be on the front page!
@UNLV @UNLVPolisci UNLV Liberal Arts

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/us-ske…

Lai Ching-te, the political brawler who went from a Taiwan mining village to the presidency |
Profile from me and Chi-Hui (Summer) Lin ahead of tomorrow’s inauguration theguardian.com/world/article/…

Tomorrow, William Lai will become the New Taiwanese President. He will not only face the rising pressure from China, but will also face the opposition dominated congress. Let’s not forget that KMT legislators has been blocking my amendments on bills regarding national security,

New paper alert! I identify members of “the climate establishment”: “insider INGOs working within the multilateral process and with large corporations to influence rulemaking, soft law and firm behavior.”
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link.springer.com/article/10.100…

'Michael [Burawoy's] ongoing engagement with activists and scholars in the global South has helped shape his insistence on a question that for him, may be even more immediate: how can sociologists contribute to meaningful social change?'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

What an honor to perform for the president of taiwan 🥹😣💛

Who is lobbying with whom, against what, and with what outcomes?

This article was five years in the making, built on a huge new dataset. Proud of the work by The Climate and Development Lab scholars Galen Hall and Trevor Culhane, and really useful results.

it's here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Colonial state doing colonial stuff 'Uyghurs, Turkic and other non-Han people’s account for 1% of the overall population of China, but comprise 33.7% of the national prison population'
uhrp.org/insights/uhrp-…

Excited to share our new publication in Finance & Space on the hybrid roles of philanthropy in climate action: foundations could be simultaneously supporting climate mission, but investing in carbon-intensive sectors
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Department of Environment and Geography

'As the world confronts the urgent challenge of climate change, let us remember that thriving democracies cannot exist in a world ablaze, nor should our pursuit of environmental justice inadvertently steer us toward a fair-weather brave new world.'
carnegieendowment.org/2024/03/19/aut…

New research '‘We want kids, not nukes’: a critical discourse analysis of newspaper representations of children in anti-nuclear movements in Taiwan, 1987–2019' from Hung-Chieh Chang of NTU Public Health. Glad to see more Taiwan presence in enviro soc! doi.org/10.1080/232510…

I have duties to organize events to support English medium instruction this year, and I am excited to have Thijs Velema speak on this topic. It'll be a great conversation. Please join us. Scan the code to register.

It’s good to see more understanding of this reflected in mainstream media stories about Taiwan.

“Neither Chiang nor the communist leader Mao Zedong had shown any interest in Taiwan until the Chinese civil war.

The island had been under Japanese rule since 1895 and, even

Fascinating.

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Unboxing my new book, 'Who we are is where we are: Making home in the American Rustbelt'! What a labor of love. Why do people stay in hard places, when all evidence suggests leaving is the best best? Read the book!