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30
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4738
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1165
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591

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Matto Mildenberger is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The main topics of Mildenberger's work cover Climate Change Policy and Economics, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Risk Perception and Management, and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth.

Mildenberger has contributed to numerous scientific publications, including several recent papers:

  • "Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change" (2020) published in Global Environmental Politics
  • "Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US" (2020) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programmes on public support for carbon pricing" (2022) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Wildfire Exposure Increases Pro-Environment Voting within Democratic but Not Republican Areas" (2020) published in American Political Science Review
  • "Nuclear power and renewable energy are both associated with national decarbonization" (2022) published in Nature Energy

In addition to journal articles, Mildenberger has published books including a title released by The MIT Press:

  • Carbon Captured (2020)

Frequent co-authors of Mildenberger include:

  • Parrish Bergquist
  • Leah Stokes
  • Kathryn Harrison
  • Érick Lachapelle
  • Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

Their publications are also frequently featured in several venues, notably:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Energy

Mildenberger was awarded the Hellman Fellow distinction in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Geographic variation in opinions on climate change at state and local scales in the USA

    Peter D. Howe;Matto Mildenberger;Jennifer R. Marlon;Anthony Leiserowitz

  • How will climate change shape climate opinion

    Peter D Howe;Jennifer R Marlon;Matto Mildenberger;Brittany S Shield

  • Beliefs about Climate Beliefs: The Importance of Second-Order Opinions for Climate Politics

    Matto Mildenberger;Dustin Tingley

  • Legislative Staff and Representation in Congress

    Alexander Hertel-Fernandez;Matto Mildenberger;Leah C. Stokes

  • A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems

    Thomas Homer-Dixon;Jonathan Leader Maynard;Matto Mildenberger;Manjana Milkoreit

  • Public opinion on climate change: Is there an economy–environment tradeoff?

    Matto Mildenberger;Anthony Leiserowitz

  • Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US

    Parrish Bergquist;Matto Mildenberger;Leah C Stokes

  • Quota sampling using Facebook advertisements

    Baobao Zhang;Matto Mildenberger;Peter D. Howe;Jennifer Marlon

  • The political logics of clean energy transitions

    Hanna Breetz;Matto Mildenberger;Leah Stokes

  • Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change

    Michaël Aklin;Matto Mildenberger

  • The distribution of climate change public opinion in Canada

    Matto Mildenberger;Peter D. Howe;Erick Lachapelle;Leah C. Stokes

  • ‘If you could change one thing…’ What community-based researchers wish they could have done differently

    Sarah Flicker;Beth Savan;Mary McGrath;Brian Kolenda

  • A snapshot of community-based research in Canada: Who? What? Why? How?

    Sarah Flicker;Beth Savan;Brian Kolenda;Matto Mildenberger

  • The spatial distribution of Republican and Democratic climate opinions at state and local scales

    Matto Mildenberger;Jennifer R. Marlon;Peter D. Howe;Anthony Leiserowitz

  • Wildfire Exposure Increases Pro-Environment Voting within Democratic but Not Republican Areas

    Chad Hazlett;Matto Mildenberger

  • Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming

    Jennifer R. Marlon;Xinran Wang;Matto Mildenberger;Parrish Bergquist

  • Carbon Captured: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics

    Matto Mildenberger

  • Experimental effects of climate messages vary geographically

    Baobao Zhang;Sander van der Linden;Matto Mildenberger;Jennifer R. Marlon

  • Personalized risk messaging can reduce climate concerns

    Matto Mildenberger;Mark Lubell;Michelle Hummel

  • Households with solar installations are ideologically diverse and more politically active than their neighbours

    Matto Mildenberger;Peter D. Howe;Chris Miljanich

  • Convergence and Divergence in the Study of Ideology: A Critical Review

    Jonathan Leader Maynard;Matto Mildenberger

  • How to facilitate (or discourage) community-based research: recommendations based on a Canadian survey

    Beth Savan;Sarah Flicker;Brian Kolenda;Matto Mildenberger

  • The development of climate institutions in the United States

    Matto Mildenberger

  • Analyzing Barriers to Energy Conservation in Residences and Offices: The Rewire Program at the University of Toronto.

    Leah C. Stokes;Matto Mildenberger;Beth Savan;Brian Kolenda

  • National climate institutions complement targets and policies.

    Navroz K. Dubash;Aditya Valiathan Pillai;Christian Flachsland;Kathryn Harrison

  • Special Thematic Section on "Societal Change" A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems

    Thomas Homer-Dixon;Jonathan Leader Maynard;Matto Mildenberger;Steven J. Mock

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer R. Marlon
Jennifer R. Marlon Yale University
Anthony Leiserowitz
Anthony Leiserowitz Yale University
Paul Thagard
Paul Thagard University of Waterloo
Edward Maibach
Edward Maibach George Mason University
Mark Lubell
Mark Lubell University of California, Davis
Matthew Paterson
Matthew Paterson University of Manchester
Navroz K. Dubash
Navroz K. Dubash Princeton University
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge
Dustin Tingley
Dustin Tingley Harvard University

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