Environmental Policy

Michael E. Kraft is professor emeritus of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He is the author of, among other works, Environmental Policy and Politics, 8th ed. (2022), and coauthor of Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (2011), with Mark Stephan and Troy D. Abel. In addition, he is the coeditor of Environmental Policy: New Directions in the 21st Century, 12th ed. (2025), with Barry G. Rabe and Norman J. Vig; Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (2009), with Daniel A. Mazmanian; and Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System (2007) and The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (2013), with Sheldon Kamieniecki. For over forty years, he taught courses in environmental policy and politics, American government, Congress, and public policy analysis. Barry G. Rabe is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He also serves as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings, 2004), which received the 2017 Martha Derthick Book Award from the American Political Science Association for making a lasting contribution to the study of federalism. His latest books are Can We Price Carbon? (MIT Press, 2018) and Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism (Brookings, 2020), coauthored with Frank J. Thompson and Kenneth K. Wong, and he is currently working on a book examining the politics of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane. Norman J. Vig is the Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society emeritus at Carleton College. He has written extensively on environmental policy, science and technology policy, and comparative politics and is coeditor with Michael G. Faure of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union (MIT Press, 2004) and with Regina S. Axelrod and David Leonard Downie of The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, 2nd ed. (CQ Press, 2005).