Faculty

Areas of Interest:
Environmental Policy, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion, Research Methods

Biography:
Sheldon Kamieniecki has taught at the University of Southern California since 1981. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Center for Research on Environmental Studies, Policy, and Engineering at USC. He has received the Division of Social Sciences and Communication Outstanding Teaching Award, the University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 1999 Raubenheimer Award for excellence in teaching, research, and service to the University (the College's highest award). He has written two books and several journal articles and book chapters on American party identification, voting behavior, and public opinion. His publications concerning environmental issues include Public Representation in Environmental Policymaking: The Case of Water Quality Planning, Controversies in Environmental Policy (edited with Robert O'Brien and Michael Clarke), Environmental Regulation through Strategic Planning (with Steven Cohen), Environmental Politics in the International Arena: Movements, Parties, Organizations, and Policy, and Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (edited with George A. Gonzalez and Robert O. Vos). He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on state, federal, and international environmental policy questions. He served on the Editorial Board for the Policy Studies Journal from 1997 until 2003. Between 1991 and 1997 he edited a book series for the State University of New York Press on International Environmental Policy and Theory. Since 1997 he has co-edited (with Michael Kraft) a book series for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press on American and Comparative Environmental Policy. He recently co-edited a symposium on Canadian Environmental Policy in Policy Studies Journal. He is currently writing two books, one on MTBE and the regulation of underground storage tanks (for MIT Press) and another on the influence of business and industry over environmental policymaking (for Stanford University Press).