Baker Institute Update: Reaching out to students in the classroom September 1, 2010
Fellows and scholars educate and engage the next generation of policymakers; also, an introduction to the institute's new…
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The Democrats’ Stealth Influence in the Texas House
In 2003 and 2009, the Texas House of Representatives had a Republican majority and a Republican speaker. In this blog post…
August 24, 2010 
Baker Institute Update: Helping Houstonians beat the heat August 18, 2010
Baker Institute interns and Rice University undergraduates help spread the word about the City of Houston's Residential…
Participation in the City of Houston's Residential Energy Efficiency Program August 10, 2010
Researchers survey Houstonians to help the city improve its Residential Energy Efficiency Program, designed to weatherize…
La Economía Política del Petróleo y el Gas en América Latina
Latin America recently experienced a new wave of nationalization in the hydrocarbon sector with tax increases and the…
July 20, 2010 The Rise of Partisan Polarization in the Texas House of Representatives
In this blog post, political science fellow Mark P. Jones documents the widening ideological gap between members of the…
July 15, 2010 
Economics of Pricing the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Restrictions in the Production of Electricity July 2, 2010
A discussion of the cost of a carbon dioxide constraint in the production of electricity, using modeling that replaces coal…