Coastal Adaptation & Sea Level Rise
Communicating Managed Retreat
Analyzing the communication gap between the public and government to break California's coastal stalemate of inaction, finding systematic differences in frames but shared underlying sentiment.
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Sea Level Rise and Markets
An econometric, Difference-in-Differences analysis evaluating whether housing markets fail to price in the threats of coastal erosion after major bluff collapse events in Pacifica, San Clemente, and Dana Point.
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Public Opinion on Ocean Policy
Developing a "gradual retreat" buyout mechanism. This plan triggers fair market value government purchase options during home sales or ownership transfers, preserving homeowner agency while securing vulnerable shorelines.
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Partisan Sorting of Interest Groups
Ongoing research exploring how American lobbying firms and interest groups have sorted ideologically over recent decades. Data collection and empirical modeling in progress.
Electoral Competition & Municipal Governance
Evaluating how local political competition impacts city councils' tone (meeting transcript negativity), topic strategies (issue ownership vs. wave riding), and policy outputs (permits and municipal spending).