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SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

While the left is often able to excite large numbers to protest, it fails to harness that energy to build lasting political power.

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Policies relevant to many key sociological processes are often subnational, enacted at the regional, state/provincial, and/or local levels. This applies notably in the politics of the environmental st...

Constituency-building is an important corporate political strategy that expands the scope of conflict by mobilizing stakeholders to pressure policymakers. Although prior studies of constituency-buildi...

Constituency mobilization is a widely prevalent corporate political strategy, yet we lack systematic evidence on the scope of its effectiveness. One emerging form of constituency mobilization is user ...

npj Climate Action - The natural gas industry, the Republican Party, and state preemption of local building decarbonization

Abstract. Scholarship has recognized that contention shapes impression management efforts by business actors but has largely ignored how geographic factors