Environment

Health

Intergovernmental Relations

Politics, Institutions & Processes: National

Science and Technology

Nonprofit and Public Management

B.A. Carthage College, History
M.A., Ph.D. University of Chicago, Political Science

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External Appointments:

Brookings Institution, Washington, DC Non-resident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies

"States on Steroids :The Intergovernmental Odyssey of American Climate Policy," Review or Policy Research 25 (March 2008): 105-128;

"Environmental Policy in the Bush Era: The Collision Between the Administrative Presidency and State Experiementation," Publius: The Journal of Federalism 37 (Summer 2007): 413-431;

Regionalism and Global Climate Change Policy," in Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Centery, Timothy Conlan and Paul Posner eds. (Brookings, 2008), 176-205;

"Beyond Kyoto: Designing Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases in Competing Federal Systems," Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, vol 20 (July 2007)

"Business Influence in State Environmental Policy," in Business and Environmental Policy, eds. Michael Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007). Co-authored with Philip A. Mundo

"Second Generation Climate Policies in the American States: Proliteration, Diffusion, and Regionalism," Issues in Governance Studies. no. 6 (August 2006):1-9. Available at (www.brookings.edu)

"Race to the Top: The Expanding Role of U.S. State Renewable Portfolio Standards," (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 2006): 1-43. Available at (www.pewclimate.org)

"Challenges to Climate Policy Development in Canada's Multi-Level Governance System," in Comparative Smart Practices for Innovation in Public Management, ed. Colin Campbell (Ottawa: Canada School for Public Service, 2006): 71-85.

"Power to the States: The Promise and Pitfalls of Decentralization," in Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century, eds Norman Vig and Michael Kraft (Washington, DC.: CQ Press, 2006): 34-56.

"State Competition as a Source Driving Climate Change Mitigation," New York University Environmental Law Review, vol. 14, (2005): 1-53. Co-authored with Mikael Roman and Arthur Dobelis.

Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Evolving Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004). Available at www.brookings.edu. Winner of the 2005 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award, American Political Science Association.

Second generation subnational climate policy development and implementation, with particular focus on policy diffusion and regionalization; comparative federalism and climate policy in North America and Europe; renewable energy politics and policy in North America; federalism and environmental policy development in the United States and Canada.

Barry Rabe is a Professor of Public Policy in the Ford School and also holds appointments in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Program in the Environment. He is a non-resident senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Much of his recent research examines state and regional development of policies to reduce greenhouse gases, which has been conducted in collaboration with the Brookings Institution and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. In 2006, Rabe became the first social scientist to receive a Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in recognition of his contribution to both scholarship and policy making. Recent publications include a 2004 Brookings book, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Evolving Politics of American Climate Change Policy, which received the 2005 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award from the American Political Science Association in recognition of the best book published on environmental politics and policy in the past three years.

Rabe has also written extensively about such topics as nuclear and hazardous waste management, cross-border and cross-media transfer of pollutants in federal regulatory systems, and the conditions necessary to achieve intergovernmental cooperation in the implementation of federal grant and regulatory programs. During the 2008-09 year, he will be a visiting professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he will help organize a National Conference on Climate Governance and a series of subsequent publications. In 2004, he completed a ten-year term as editor of the American Governance and Public Policy book series for Georgetown University Press. In 2004-05, he served as president of the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. At Michigan, he previously served as Director of the Program in the Environment and an Interim Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment. In 2007, he received the Daniel Elazar Award for Career Contribution to the Study of Federalism from the American Political Science Association.

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Program in the Environment

American Political Science Association (Executive Council, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section); Midwest Political Science Association; Canadian Political Science Association; Association for Canadian Studies in the United States.
Editorial Boards: Political Research Quarterly; Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions; American Review of Canadian Studies.