I study climate change and energy politics across the high-income democracies. My work investigates the conditions under which governments are able to adopt stringent decarbonization policies, the drivers of business’ policy preferences, and how voters respond to climate-related reforms. I am interested in a variety of climate policy instruments including carbon pricing, regulations and standards, and green industrial policy. More broadly, I am interested in the politics of long-term policymaking and governance. 

My Google Scholar profile can be found here.

PUBLICATIONS

“The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions” [with Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling, and Florence Metz]. The Journal of Politics (2025). Paper | Replication Files

“How central banks manage climate and energy transition risks” [with Esther Shears and Jonas Meckling]. Nature Energy (2025). Paper

“Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation.” Comparative Political Studies (2022). Paper | Supplemental Material | Replication Files

“Why nations lead or lag in energy transitions” [with Jonas Meckling, Phillip Lipscy and Florence Metz]. Science (2022). (Available here)

“Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-term Policymaking.” Comparative Political Studies (2022). Paper | Supplemental Material | Replication Files

“The Influence of Climate Change Advisory Bodies on Political Debates: Evidence from the UK Committee on Climate Change” [with Alina Averchenkova and Sam Fankhauser]. Climate Policy (2021). (Available here)

“Varieties of De-carbonization? Comparative Political Economy and Climate Change”. Socio-Economic Review (2020). (Available here)

“The Impact of Strategic Climate Legislation: Evidence from Expert Interviews of the UK Climate Change Act” [with Alina Averchenkova and Sam Fankhauser]. Climate Policy (2020). (Available here)

WORKING PAPERS

“Fighting the Future: Short-term Investors and Business Opposition to Climate Policy” [with Jonas Meckling] (Under review)

“Industrial Policy and Decarbonization: The Case of Nuclear Energy in France” [with Julius Andersson] (Under review)

“Green Industrial Policy at the Ballot Box: The Electoral Effects of the Inflation Reduction Act” [with Aidan Miao and Julius Andersson]

“Energy Politics over the Long Run: Gasoline Taxes in US States since 1919”

WORKS IN PROGRESS

“Political Parties’ Positions on Climate Change” [with Mary Sanford, Silvia Pianta, and Fergus Green]

“Business Preferences on Climate Policy: Evidence from a Survey in Four European Countries” [with Marion Dumas]

PHD DISSERTATION

My dissertation, Low Carbon for the Long Term: Essays on the Comparative Political Economy of Climate Change Policy, focuses on the distributional politics of adopting “climate policy investments”: mitigation measures that impose costs on society today to generate greater future benefits. It was awarded the 2020 Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award for best dissertation by the STEP Section of APSA.

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