Dr. Eric Lindquist came to Boise State University in 2012 as the director of the Public Policy Center in the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs. Prior to joining Boise State, he was on the faculty of Texas A&M University, where he served as associate director of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy and as an adjunct professor for the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He earned a Ph.D. in political science, a master’s degree in urban and regional science and a bachelor’s degree in geography, all at Texas A&M. Dr. Lindquist’s research interests are in public policy and decision processes, agenda setting, earth systems governance, and the impact of focusing events on public policy, as well as sustainability and environmental policy and science and technology policy. His most recent projects have focused on climate change policy and the use of climate science in intergovernmental decision making, as well as the public policy implications of nanotechnology, electric vehicle infrastructure, and nuclear detection technology. He has reviewed manuscripts for Policy Studies Journal, Review of Policy Research, and Regional Environmental Change, and served on the proposal reviews panel for the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies.
Articles & Reports
Explaining Media and Congressional Attention to Global Climate Change, 1969-2005: An Empirical Test of Agenda-Setting Theory (with Xinsheng Liu and Arnold Vedlitz), Political Research Quarterly (2011)
Agenda theories suggest that problem indicator, focusing event, and information feedback enhance issue attention. However,...
Science, Engineering, and Technology in the Policy Process for Mitigating Natural-Societal Risk (with Timothy R. B. Taylor, David N. Ford, and Shari A. Yvon-Lewis), System Dynamics Review (2011)
Increased societal risks due to the anthropogenic degradation of natural systems often require public policy...
Recent Changes in Flood Preparedness of Private Households and Businesses in Germany (with Heidi Kreibich, Isabel Seifert, Annegret H. Thieken, Klaus Wagner, and Bruno Merz), Regional Environmental Change (2011)
Using the focusing event framework, a comprehensive analysis of private households’ and businesses’ preparedness was...
Transportation Planning, Policy and Climate Change: Making the Long-Term Connection, University Transportation Center for Mobility™ (UTCM), Texas Transportation Institute, The Texas A&M University System (2011)
Climate change and variability will have significant impacts on the future mobility of the population...
Examining Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Behaviours Among Public Sector Organisations in the USA (with Sam Brody, Himanshu Grover, and Arnold Vedlitz), Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability (2010)
Climate change has become a more salient issue on the US policy agenda at all...
Contributions to Books
An American Perspective on Sustainable Development : What is It, Where is It, and What are the Prospects for the Future?, Sustainable Development, an Integrative Paradigm? : A Transatlantic View on Politics, Economy and Society (2011)
Developing, Financing, and Implementing Local Sustainable Transportation Programs, Creating Sustainable Community Programs : Examples of Collaborative Public Administration (2001)
Presentations
Sub-National Governance for Climate Change in the United States: Prospects for Translating Knowledge into Action under Conditions of Uncertainty, Planet Under Pressure Conference (2012)
The Role of Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Regional Councils in Climate Change Adaptation Policy in the United States, First World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, ICLEI (2010)
Adaptation to climate change at the regional level of governance in the United States presents...
Social Sciences in Natural Hazards Research: Interdisciplinary Research Approaches, European Geosciences Union General Assembly (2010)
The objectives of this session are to (1) provide several of the poster presenters an...