Collantes studied the policy process around the ZEV mandate implemented in California in 1990. The first part of his thesis studies the origin that lead up to the implementation of the mandate. The second part is an in debth analysis of the policy process during the biennial reviews of the mandate, while the third part of the thesis studies the strategic behavior of the involved parts in the policy process. Collantes complete dissertation can be downloaded here. Gustavo Collantes personal website at Hydrogen Pathways can be found here.

Gustavo Collantes has been with the Hydrogen Pathways program since 2003 and has moved to Boston in August 2006 to start a research position at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.