publications

book

Jonas Nahm. 2021. Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Awards:

    • Winner, 2023, Best Book on International Political Economy, International Studies Association

    • Winner, 2022, Best Book on Science, Technology, and Politics, American Political Science Association

journal articles

Bentley Allan and Jonas Nahm. 2025. "Strategies of green industrial policy: How states position firms in global supply chains." American Political Science Review 119 (1): 420-434.

Nils Kupzok and Jonas Nahm. 2025. "Green macrofinancial bargains: How economic interests enable and limit climate action." Review of International Political Economy: 1-24.

Vegard Tørstad, Tatjana Stankovic, Jonas Nahm, Johannes Urpelainen, and Jon Hovi. 2025. "Macroeconomic crises and green recovery spending: Introducing the CLIMREC dataset." npj Climate Action 4 (1): 18.

Nils Kupzok and Jonas Nahm. 2024. "The Decarbonization Bargain: How the Decarbonizable Sector Shapes Climate Politics." Perspectives on Politics 22 (4): 1203-1223.

Vegard Tørstad, Jonas Nahm, Jon Hovi, Tora Skodvin, and Gard Olav Dietrichson. 2024. "Economic recessions and decarbonisation: Analysing green stimulus spending in Canada and the US." New Political Economy 29 (4): 513.

Michael R. Davidson, Valerie J. Karplus, Joanna I. Lewis, Jonas Nahm, Alex Wang. 2022. "Risks of decoupling from China on low-carbon technologies." Science 377 (6611): 1266-1269.

Jonas Nahm, Scot Miller, and Johannes Urpelainen. 2022. "G20’s US$14-trillion economic stimulus reneges on emissions pledges." Nature 603: 28-31.

Jonas Nahm and Johannes Urpelainen. 2021. "The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China's Power Sector." Global Environmental Politics 21 (4): 88-109.

Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm. 2021. "Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy." Comparative Political Studies.

  • Award: Winner, 2021, Best Paper in Public Policy, American Political Science Association

John Helveston and Jonas Nahm. 2019. "China's key role in scaling low-carbon energy technologies." Science 366 (6467): 794-796.

Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm. 2019. "The Politics of Technology Bans: Industrial Policy Competition and Green Goals for the Global Auto Industry." Energy Policy 126: 470-479.

Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm. 2018. "The Power of Process: State Capacity and Climate Policy." Governance 31 (4): 741-75.

  • Award: Winner, 2018 Evan J. Ringquist Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association

Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm. 2018. "When Do States Disrupt Industries? Electric Cars and the Politics of Innovation." Review of International Political Economy 25(4): 505-529.

Jonas Nahm. 2017. "Exploiting the Implementation Gap: Policy Divergence and Industrial Upgrading in China's Wind and Solar Sectors." The China Quarterly 231: 705-727.

  • Award: Winner, 2017 Gordon White Prize (most original article published in The China Quarterly)

Jonas Nahm. 2017. "Renewable Futures and Industrial Legacies: Wind and Solar Sectors in China, Germany, and the United States." Business and Politics 19 (1): 68-106.

Jonas Nahm and Genia Kostka. 2017. "Central–Local Relations: Recentralization and Environmental Governance in China." The China Quarterly 231: 567-582.

Jonas Nahm and Edward Steinfeld. 2014. "Scale-Up Nation: China's Specialization in Innovative Manufacturing." World Development 54: 288-300.

book chapters

Jonas Nahm. 2025. ‘US-China Relations and the Competitive Turn of Green Industrial Policymaking’, in Paul Tobin, Mat Paterson, and Stacy D. VanDeveer (eds) Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 222–236.

Jonas Nahm. 2022. "Green Growth Models." In Lucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth, and Jonas Pontusson. Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jonas Nahm. 2019. "Energy Politics in China." In Kathleen Hancock and Juliann Allison (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jonas Nahm and Edward Steinfeld. 2014. "The Role of Innovative Manufacturing in High-Tech Product Development: Evidence from China's Renewable Energy Sector." In Production in the Innovation Economy, edited by Richard Locke and Rachel Wellhausen. MIT Press.