Return to Campus Updates, and Booster Requirements for the Semester.
Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment
Founding Director, Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP)
Urpelainen, J. (2018) Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor. Cambridge: MIT Press
Urpelainen, J. (2018) Renewables: The Politics of a Global Energy Transition. Cambridge: MIT Press
Urpelainen, J. (2018) Activism and the Fossil Fuel Industry. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Urpelainen, J. (2018) Organizing Democracy: How International Organizations Assist New Democracies. Chicago: Chicago University Press
Urpelainen, J. (2014) Cutting the Gordian Knot of Economic Reform: When and How International Institutions Help. New York: Oxford University Press
The Broad Impact of a Narrow Conflict: How Natural Resource Windfalls Shape Policy and Politics. 2018. Journal of Politics 80 (2): 630-646. [With Jasper Cooper and Sung Eun Kim]
Does Basic Energy Access Generate Socio-Economic Benefits? A Field Experiment with Off-Grid Solar Power in India. 2017. Science Advances 3: e1602153. [With Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, and S.P. Harish]
Factors Affecting Household Satisfaction with Electricity Supply in Rural India. 2016.
Nature Energy 1: 16048. [With Michaël Aklin, Chao-yo Cheng, Karthik Ganesan, and Abhishek Jain]
It’s All About Political Incentives: Democracy and the Renewable Feed-In Tariff. 2016.
Journal of Politics 78 (2): 603-619. [With Patrick Bayer]
Instruments of Political Control: National Oil Companies, Oil Prices, and Petroleum Subsidies. 2015. Comparative Political Studies 48 (3): 370-402. [With Andrew Cheon and Maureen Lackner]
International Bureaucrats and the Formation of Intergovernmental Organizations: Institutional Design Discretion Sweetens the Pot. 2014. International Organization 68 (1): 177-209. [With Tana Johnson]
Political Competition, Path Dependence, and the Strategy of Sustainable Energy Transitions. 2013. American Journal of Political Science: 57 (3): 643-658. [With Michaël Aklin]
A Strategic Theory of Regime Integration and Separation. 2012. International Organization 66 (4): 645-677. [With Tana Johnson]
Johannes Urpelainen interviewed on Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs, 11/05
Johannes Urpelainen wrote in One Earth, 08/05
Johannes Urpelainen wrote for Brookings Institution, 07/14
Johannes Urpelainen wrote for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 07/12
Johannes Urpelainen wrote for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 07/12
Johannes Urpelainen wrote for Brookings Institution, 04/20
Johannes Urpelainen wrote in State Politics and Policy Quarterly, 04/16
Johannes Urpelainen wrote in The Washington Post, 01/21
Johannes Urpelainen interviewed in Energi Media, 1/16
Johannes Urpelainen wrote for Brookings Institution, 01/07