Victor Y. Wu

Image of a Nature Communications article titled “Messages from co-partisan elected officials can increase climate mitigation intentions without changing climate beliefs.”

New Paper 🚨 @natcomms.nature.com

Three findings:
1️⃣ Co-partisan elites can boost climate-action intentions without increasing belief in climate change.
2️⃣ Climate frames work just as well for Republicans—no “backfire” effect.
3️⃣ Elites leading by example (CREDs) aren’t more persuasive.

Messages from co-partisan elected officials can increase climate mitigation intentions without changing climate beliefs - Nature Communications Climate belief change is often viewed as key to climate action. Here, the author shows that messages from co-partisan officials can increase climate mitigation intentions among both Republicans and De...

🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Image of a Nature Communications article titled “Messages from co-partisan elected officials can increase climate mitigation intentions without changing climate beliefs.”

New Paper 🚨 @natcomms.nature.com

Three findings:
1️⃣ Co-partisan elites can boost climate-action intentions without increasing belief in climate change.
2️⃣ Climate frames work just as well for Republicans—no “backfire” effect.
3️⃣ Elites leading by example (CREDs) aren’t more persuasive.

Trusted Climate Data for Effective Policy: A Roadmap for Action | Stanford Law School By: Victor Y. Wu, Oliver Edelson, and Allison Weinstock Ambitious governmental, corporate, and market pledges to cut carbon emissions can be fulfilled

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New Paper 🚨 in the Stanford Law Review

EPA has been violating the #CleanWaterAct for decades by approving 30+ state programs with inadequate criminal liability. EPA's new rule (effective 1/17/25) only continues to weaken environmental enforcement.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New Paper 🚨 in the Stanford Law Review

EPA has been violating the #CleanWaterAct for decades by approving 30+ state programs with inadequate criminal liability. EPA's new rule (effective 1/17/25) only continues to weaken environmental enforcement.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Congratulations!!

Partisan energy preferences in the United States: Republicans prioritize price, Democrats also consider renewables How does partisanship affect energy preferences in the United States? Using a nationally representative conjoint experiment (n = 1,862) to simulate Am…

Excellent study from @victorywu.bsky.social, with an important implication for political strategy: " ... Communicating financial incentives and cost savings is crucial for promoting renewable energy adoption among Republicans and Independents."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

New Paper 🚨 at ERSS

How does partisanship affect energy preferences? My conjoint experiment shows that Republicans’ choice of energy mix is determined mostly by price, whereas Democrats’ choice is determined equally by price and by % of renewables.

doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

New Paper 🚨 forthcoming at the Stanford Law Review

EPA has been violating the #CleanWaterAct for decades by approving 30+ state programs with inadequate criminal liability. EPA's new rule (effective 1/17/25) only continues to weaken environmental enforcement.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New Paper 🚨 forthcoming at the Stanford Law Review

EPA has been violating the #CleanWaterAct for decades by approving 30+ state programs with inadequate criminal liability. EPA's new rule (effective 1/17/25) only continues to weaken environmental enforcement.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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New from @victorywu.bsky.social and my colleague Joe Bafumi blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...