Katie Nissen

Hey that’s my paper!

ABSTRACT How do natural disasters affect elite policymaker communication about environmental issues? Natural disasters are highly salient events that capture individuals’ attention. As a result, policymakers may increase communication on environmental topics in order to better align with constituent or ideological concerns. Using a novel data set of 88,211 tweets from U.S. Congress members, I find that the occurrence of natural disasters in a policymaker’s constituency leads to increased environmental messaging, particularly among Democrats and representatives of Democratic-leaning areas. The effect is strongest in electorally safe districts, regardless of party. Overall, natural disasters induce greater environmental communication from policymakers, but such effects vary greatly depending on the partisan landscape. This work has important implications for ongoing political gridlock and partisanship that hinders meaningful climate and environmental policy

New article!

Policymaker environmental communication in the wake of natural disasters, by Katie Nissen.

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i’ve been training smarter and more consistently for over a year and i still can’t get close to beating my 10k PR from 2021 that i did on a whim

don’t ever get old

when i was a kid and complaining about calc homework or whatever and saying “why do we need to know this it isnt useful in the real world” my mom would say “it’s just part of being educated” and i’d like to formally declare she’s right and it’s good we’re expected to know things

giving the children wrinkles to teach them the value of sunscreen

oppenheimer (and robert downey jr) cleaned house at the oscars so i can die happy now everything is right with the world

that’s understandable i’m awesome

What Did I Want To Be When I Grew Up? and why i quit each

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did ya miss me?

now that bluesky is public i can let you all know that 1) i’ve been pronouncing it “blue ski” this whole time and 2) go follow my blog knissen.substack.com

Why I'm Compressing Five Pounds Of Spaghetti Into A Handy Mouth-Sized Bar unleashing food's awesome power

aw gee whiz nearly forgot to post the blog this week! you all would’ve been devastated

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it’s time to have the national conversation about how all masters programs are just MBA-lite now. why are you doing an informational interview with me i am 26. why do you have a research portfolio you are 26.

the grindset must stop #abolishmasters

my spotify dj doesn’t understand i want the *glee* version of cough syrup

i have to be the funniest person in the Teams chat for some reason

What If I Bought A Kona Ice Truck Instead Of Retiring? my roth ira isnt doing well you guys

this is being called “blog of the year” by some (me) open.substack.com/pub/knissen/...

my family’s history of chronic longevity makes that “doable” less pleasant but nonetheless🫡

according to my spreadsheets i need to die two years after i retire and nothing more

bluesky doesn’t push my content to enough randos i get more attention on my locked twitter account than i do here

Bob Dylan Possibly Fixed Me i feel i captured his multitudes

go read my blog so you too can have a bob dylan kind of day

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must be a bitch to attempt that until puberty kicks in

at what point in the process do they teach quarterbacks to yell all stupid like that

new socks are too slippery and make me feel that my shoes are pooling with blood

any variety of not-full fat mozzarella is a form of self harm

espn highlight reel babey 😎

if its cowardly to catch a td off a sick slant route then ill be a coward !

played football with my nephew and he kept telling me to block for him but i’ll be in my cold hard grave before i take orders from an 8 year old

HOW DO I MAKE THE FONT ON THIS APP SMALLER my god u have an entirely built UI to steal from over on twitter just go do it and stop looking like trash😭😭😭

unfortunately they’re correct it’s very fun but i’m still bitter abt it !

who up playing pickle ball with they parents bc ur home for christmas and they’re obsessed ??

All right everybody, knock it off and look alive. This is a work day