Beyond academic journals
I write essays, research summaries, and Twitter threads on climate policy, comparative political economy, and liberal democracy. I am quite active on Twitter/X, where most of my commentary on new papers and current debates appears. The links to the threads open on Thread Reader, where you can read them without a Twitter/X account. This page also collects my panel discussions and presentations.
These essays discuss Germany’s climate legislation, climate policy amid geopolitical tensions, and the importance of democracy for climate action. The reviews examine corporate power in democracies and Rodrik’s productivist paradigm.
With Gabriele Gratton
We assess Rodrik’s case for productivism, examining the limits of good jobs as the basis for middle-class economic security, the unequal benefits of growth driven by services, and the constraints smaller countries face in pursuing industrial policy.
Jacob Edenhofer
I review Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee’s ‘Billionaire Backlash’.
With Christian Flachsland and Claudia Zwar
With Ottmar Edenhofer, Matthias Kalkuhl, and Cecilia Kilimann
With Ottmar Edenhofer
These summaries introduce the central ideas or findings in my (working) papers to a non-academic audience.
With Thiemo Fetzer and Callum Shaw
With Thiemo Fetzer and Prashant Garg
With Federica Genovese
With Eleonora Alabrese, Thiemo Fetzer, and Shizhuo Wang
With Thiemo Fetzer and Prashant Garg
With Eleonora Alabrese, Thiemo Fetzer, and Shizhuo Wang
I started these threads when I was revising for my “Comparative Government” exams as a way to get feedback on my revision notes. They include summaries of individual papers and books, primers on particular literatures, reading lists, and, of course, my own takes. The threads are grouped by theme, with the most recent first.
These discussions, presentations, and tentative notes examine climate policy, expertise, democratic authority, and populism.
With Ottmar Edenhofer
We prepared these slides for the keynote given by Ottmar Edenhofer (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and TU Berlin) at ‘Resilienz des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems – Verantwortung gemeinsam übernehmen’, a conference on the resilience of Germany’s science system.
With Christian Leßmann, Luisa Dörr, and Julius Kölzer
We discuss the sources of support for populist parties in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
Jacob Edenhofer
Presentation at the Ariadne workshop “EU Climate and Energy Policy in a Polarising World”.
Jacob Edenhofer
In this fairly comprehensive slide deck (more than 80 slides), I synthesise the literature on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism and assess potential countermeasures.
Jacob Edenhofer
Discussion of Gruhl et al. at the Ariadne workshop “Staying the Course in Turbulent Times”.