Comprehensive Climate Change Policy: Is it Possible in the United States?

The purpose of this paper is to explore what the United States has achieved with regards to climate policy, present the limitations it has encountered that have prevented it from creating comprehensive policy, and to explain why the future of climate change policy is highly uncertain. It is found that while there have been significant gains, four key limitations including a rise in conservative ideology, international noncooperation from the United States, poor use of adversarial legalism, and poor timing, have been sufficient in preventing the United States from creating comprehensive climate change policy. This paper concludes with a look to the future in climate policymaking, estimating whether or not a breakthrough will be feasible

The Commons: Volume 3, Issue 1

Table of Contents Letter From the EditorsLILA BERNARDIN AND HANNAH WILLIAMS Who Sent the Devil Down to Georgia?KRIS BOHNENSTIEHL The Dehumanizing Gaze: Race in the Context of Academic TourismLEONA DERANGO Balancing Populations of Electoral DistrictsETHAN STERN-ELLI

Concert recording 2018-03-29

[Track 1]. Cavantine, op. 144 / Camille Saint-Saëns -- [Track 2]. 3 duos for 2 flutes, opus 80: no. 3. II. Andante / Friedrich Kuhlau -- [Track 3]. The flower duet from Lakmé / Léo Delibes -- [Track 4]. Eight preludes, op. 34. No. 24 [Track 5]. No. 19 [Track 6]. No. 6 / Dimitri Shostakovich arranged by Douglas Yeo -- [Track 7]. Duos for flute and clarinet. I. Andante sostenuto [Track 8]. II. Allegro risoluto [Track 9]. III. Moderato [Track 10]. IV. Allegro ma non troppo / Robert Mucznski -- [Track 11]. Sonata for flute and piano in C major. II. Aria [Track 12]. III. Allegro scherzando / Otar Taktakishvili -- [Track 13]. Canonic sonata no. 1. II. Adagio [Track 14]. III. Allegro / George Philipp Telemann arranged by Catron -- [Track 15]. Concerto in F minor. I. Allegro / Bernhard Henrik Cruseli

When do interest groups contact bureaucrats rather than politicians? Evidence on fire alarms and smoke detectors from Japan

What determines whether interest groups choose to contact politicians or bureaucrats? Despite the importance of this question for policymaking, democracy, and some prominent principal-agent understandings of politics, it is relatively unexplored in the literature. We argue that government stability plays a major part in interest groups' decisions. That is, central to interest groups' decisions is their assessment of the likelihood that politicians currently in power will continue to be in the future. We deduce logical, but totally contrasting hypotheses, about how interest groups lobby under such conditions of uncertainty and then test these using a heteroskedastic probit model that we apply to a unique longitudinal survey of interest groups in Japan. We find that when it is unclear if the party controlling the government will maintain power in the future, interest groups are more likely to contact the bureaucracy. When it is believed that the party in power will retain control for a considerable period, interest groups are more inclined to contact politicians. In addition, during times of government uncertainty, interest groups that are supportive of the governing party (or parties) are more likely to contact politicians and those that are less supportive will be more likely to contact bureaucrats. © 2013 Cambridge University Press

Concert recording 2017-12-06

[Track 1]. Allegro barbaro, BB63 / Béla Bartok -- [Track 2]. Etude in A♭ major, op. 25, no. 1 / Frédéric Chopin -- [Track 3]. Solo de concours, op. 10 / Henri Rabaud -- [Track 4]. Concerto no. 2 in F minor, op. 5. III. Rondo: Allegretto / Bernard Crusell -- [Track 5]. Premiere rhapsodie / Claude Debussy -- [Track 6]. Solo de concours, op. 10 / Henri Rabaud -- [Track 6]. Sonata for clarinet and piano. IV. Mässig bewegt / Paul Hindemith -- [Track 7]. Sonata for trumpet in B♭ major / Paul Hindemit

Concert recording 2017-11-30b

[Track 1]. Sonata for clarinet and piano. I. Mässig bewegt / Paul Hindemith -- [Track 2]. Concertino in E♭ major, op. 26 / Carl Maria von Weber -- [Track 3]. Five bagatelles for clarinet and piano, op. 23. I. Prelude / Gerald Finzi -- [Track 4]. Solo de concours, op. 10 / Henri Rabaud -- [Track 5]. Concerto no. 2 in E♭ major, op. 74. III. Alla polacca / Weber -- [Track 6]. Six studies in English folk song. II. Andante sostenuto (\u27Spurn point\u27) [Track 7]. III. Larghetto ( Van Dieman\u27s land\u27) in D modal minor [Track 8]. IV. Lento (\u27She borrowed some of her mother\u27s gold\u27) in D major / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- [Track 9]. Concerto no. 2 in F minor, op. 5. III. Rondo: allegretto / Bernard Crusell -- [Track 10]. Premiere rhapsodie / Claude Debussy -- [Track 11]. Fantasy for clarinet and piano / Carl Nielsen

Infrared spectroscopy of NaCl(CH3OH)n complexes in helium nanodroplets

Infrared (IR) spectra of complexes between NaCl and methanol have been recorded for the first time. These complexes were formed in liquid helium nanodroplets by consecutive pick-up of NaCl and CH3OH molecules. For the smallest NaCl(CH3OH)n complexes where n = 1-3, the IR data suggest that the lowest energy isomer is the primary product in each case. The predominant contribution to the binding comes from ionic hydrogen bonds between the OH in each methanol molecule and the chloride ion in the NaCl, as established by the large red-shift of the OH stretching bands compared with the isolated CH3OH molecule. For n ≥ 4 there is a dramatic shift from discrete vibrational bands to very broad absorption envelopes, suggesting a profound change in the structural landscape and, in particular, access to multiple low-energy isomers

Metastable aluminium atoms floating on the surface of helium nanodroplets

Metal atoms have proved to be sensitive probes of the properties of superfluid helium nanodroplets. To date, all experiments on the doping of helium droplets have concentrated on the attachment of metal atoms in their ground electronic states. Here we report the first examples of metal atoms in excited states becoming attached to helium nanodroplets. The atoms in question are aluminium and they have been generated by laser ablation in a metastable quartet state, which attaches to and remains on the surface of helium droplets. Evidence for a surface location comes from electronic spectra, which consist of very narrow absorption profiles that show very small spectral shifts. Supporting ab initio calculations show there to be an energy incentive for a metastable Al atom to remain on the surface of a helium droplet rather than move to the interior. The results suggest that helium droplets may provide a method for the capture and transport of metastable excited atomic and molecular species

Concert recording 2018-02-09

[Track 1]. Marche á huit instrumens á vent / Nannette Streicher -- [Track 2]. Dixtuor pour instruments á vent. I. Allegro moderato II. Moderato [Track 3]. III. Andante - Allegro scherzando [Track 4]. IV. Cantabile [Track 5]. V. Allegro risoluto / Claude Arrieu, née Louise Marie Simon -- [Track 6]. Octet for windinstruments / Tera de Marez Oyens -- [Track 7]. The unfortunate traveller, suite for brass band. I. Introduction II. Scherzo [Track 8]. III. Interlude [Track 9]. IV. March / Imogen Holst