Scholars
Christian Morin Elliott
Penn State School of International Affairs
Based in
United States
North America
Christian is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability at Penn State’s School of International Affairs. Previously, he was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Climate Solutions Lab. He received my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he was a SSHRC Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholar from 2020-2023.
Christian’s research focuses on how the environmental impacts of corporations are governed across borders, especially for financial institutions like banks and insurance companies. He’s also interested in the effects of global governance complexity, and how public and private authorities collaborate or compete in the climate regime.
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Country(ies) of Specialty
CanadaFocus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Climate policy and politics Net ZeroPublications
Articles
Elliott, Christian, Amy Janzwood, Steven Bernstein, and Matthew Hoffmann. “Rethinking Complementarity: The Co-evolution of Public and Private Governance in Corporate Climate Disclosure.” Regulation & Governance, vol. 18, no. 3, 2024, pp. 802-819. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12550
Elliott, Christian. “Whitewashing Green Swans: Sustainable Finance and the Epistemic Foundations of Policy Paradigms.” Uncertainty in Global Politics, Taylor & Francis, 2023, p. 136. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003426080 11/whitewashing-green-swans-christian-elliott
O’Connell, William D., and Christian Elliott. “States and New Markets: The Novelty Problem in the IPE of Finance.” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 30, no. 2, 2023, pp. 403-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2023.2165529 Elliott, Christian, Steven Bernstein, and Matthew Hoffmann. “Credibility Dilemmas under the Paris Agreement: Explaining Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform References in INDCs.” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, vol. 22, 2022, pp. 735-759. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-022-09581-8
Chavara, Carley, Christian Elliott, Matthew Hoffmann, and Matthew Paterson. “Continuity and Change in Carbon Market Politics.” The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics, Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197515037.013.42
Elliott, Christian M., and Le-Yin Zhang. “Diffusion and Innovation for Transition: Transnational Governance in China’s Green Bond Market Development.” Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, vol. 21, no. 4, 2019, pp. 391-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623655