Publications

Trachtman, Samuel and Jonas Meckling. Forthcoming. “The Climate Advocacy Gap.” Climatic Change [LINK]

Trachtman, Samuel. 2022. “State Policy and National Representation: Marijuana Politics in American Federalism.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. [LINK] [PDF]

Trachtman, Samuel. 2021. “Policy Feedback and Interdependence in American Federalism: Evidence from Rooftop Solar Politics.” Perspectives on Politics: 1–16. [LINK] [PDF]

Lerman, Amy E., and Samuel Trachtman. 2020. “Where Policies and Politics Diverge: Awareness, Assessments, and Attribution in the ACA.” Public Opinion Quarterly 84(2): 419-45. [LINK] [PDF]

Trachtman, Samuel. 2020. “What Drives Climate Policy Adoption in the U.S. States?” Energy Policy 138: 111214. [LINK] [PDF]

Trachtman, Samuel. 2020. “When State Policy Makes National Politics: The Case of ‘Obamacare’ Marketplace Implementation.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45(1): 111–41. [LINK] [PDF]

Trachtman, Samuel. 2019. “Building Climate Policy in the States.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 685(1): 96–114. [LINK] [PDF]

Trachtman, Samuel. 2019. “Polarization, Participation, and Premiums: How Political Behavior Helps Explain Where the ACA Works, and Where It Doesn’t.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 44(6): 855–84. [LINK] [PDF]

Lerman, Amy E., Meredith L. Sadin, and Samuel Trachtman. 2017. “Policy Uptake as Political Behavior: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act.” American Political Science Review 111(4): 755–70. [LINK] [PDF]

Submitted Working Papers

Wildfire-mitigating Power Shutoffs Promote Household-level Adaptation but not Climate Policy Support (with Matto Mildenberger, Peter Howe, Leah Stokes, and Mark Lubell) [PDF] (Revise and Resubmit, Nature Energy)

Age Group Identity and Political Participation (with Sarah Anzia and Charlotte Hill) [PDF]

The Home State Effect on National Business Coalitions: Evidence from U.S. Climate Politics (with Jonas Meckling) [PDF]

Book Project

How States Lead: American Federalism and the Political Economy of Reform [more info here]

Other Writing

The ACA: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Public Health Post, 2019) [LINK]