Development of an agent-based model for regional market penetration projections of electric vehicles in the United States

Building on historical and discursive institutionalism, this article examines the agent-based dynamics of gradual institutional change. Specifically, using marriage equality in the United States as a case study, we examine how actors’ ideational work enabled them to make use of the political and discursive opportunities afforded by multiple venues to legitimize the process of institutional change to take off sequentially through layering, displacement, and conversion. We also pay special attention to how the discursive strategies deployed by LGBT advocates, religious-conservative organizations and other private actors created new opportunities to influence policy debates and tip the scales to their preferred policy outcome. The sequential perspective adopted in this study allows problematizing traditional conceptualizations of which actors support or contest the status quo, as enduring oppositional dynamics lead them to perform both roles in subsequent phases of the institutional change process.

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Assessing the health impacts of electric vehicles through air pollution in the United States

Environment International ◽

10.1016/j.envint.2020.106015 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 144 ◽

pp. 106015

Author(s):

Ernani F. Choma ◽

John S. Evans ◽

James K. Hammitt ◽

José A. Gómez-Ibáñez ◽

John D. Spengler

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Air Pollution ◽

Electric Vehicles ◽

The United States ◽

Health Impacts

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Eco-efficiency of electric vehicles in the United States: A life cycle assessment based principal component analysis

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.058 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 212 ◽

pp. 515-526 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Nuri C. Onat ◽

Murat Kucukvar ◽

Shiva Afshar

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Principal Component Analysis ◽

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Electric Vehicles ◽

Principal Component ◽

Component Analysis ◽

The United States

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United States Economic Sanctions on Iran and Their Impacts on the Middle Eastern Art Market

Arts ◽

10.3390/arts9040132 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 132

Author(s):

Ahmad Rafiei Vardanjani

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

Art Market ◽

The United States ◽

Online Marketing ◽

Regional Market ◽

Middle Eastern Art ◽

Networked Economy ◽

The Impact

The United States’ sanctions on Iran have limited the Iranian art market’s connections with the international art network. Galleries try to compensate for such limitations through online marketing and exhibition. Thus, the sanctions not only impact the form of marketing exerted by dealers but also directly influence the type of artistic production. Such changes also reshape the art market in the Arab states. The transition from tangible to intangible has become a strategy for the regional market to bypass the sanctions and develop business with the global collectors and institutions. A quantitative analysis was used to demonstrate the impact of the sanctions on the art market in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. This analysis examined all exhibitions in 12 commercial galleries in Tehran and Dubai from 2009 to 2019, statistically assessing the index of changes over this period and calculating the variations, particularly during the years of intensified sanctions. The study indicates how the propensity of galleries for a digitally networked economy is becoming a solution to reduce the impacts of the sanctions in order for the galleries to maintain their clientele of international collectors and dealers.

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