Faculty and students focusing on the politics of policy investigage an array of areas: agriculture, education, environment, and macro-economic and monetary policy.  The politics of environmental policy is an area of special focus at UCSB, especially on issues of human-climate interaction in the area of climate change and energy. 

Political Science Faculty
Benjamin J. Cohen: Economic policy
Lorraine McDonnell: Education
Lorelei Moosbrugger: Agriculture and environment
Eric R.A.N. Smith: Energy and environment
Stephen Weatherford: Economic policy
John Woolley: Economic policy, especially monetary policy,  and the environment

Affiliated Faculty and Collaborators
Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Affiliated Faculty): environmental politics, political structures and dynamics
Bill Freudenberg (Environmental Studies Program): environment-society systems
Oran Young (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Affiliated Faculty): international governance and environmental institutions

Lecturers
Michael McGinnis, Marine Science Institute
Robert Wilkinson, Environmental Studies Program & Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

Graduate Students
Graduate students interested in preparing a field paper on the politics of public policy may do so by petition. Pre-approval from the student's faculty advisor and graduate advisor is required for any four courses to be counted as a  qualifying field.