Dr. Liam F. Beiser-McGrath

Department of Social Policy
London School of Economics and Political Science

Liam F. Beiser-McGrath

Liam F. Beiser-McGrath

Associate Professor in International Social and Public Policy

London School of Economics and Political Science

Biography

Dr. Liam F. Beiser-McGrath is an Associate Professor in International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy, Chair of the Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub, Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Affiliate of the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Liam is also an Editor for the journal Environmental Politics and the organiser of EPG Online, an online seminar series covering Environmental Politics and Governance.

Liam’s research primarily focuses on the political economy of climate change, using experimental research designs and machine learning. This research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Climate Change, the Journal of Politics, Science Advances, European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, Climatic Change, Political Science Research & Methods, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, the Journal of European Social Policy, Energy Policy, Regulation and Governance, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Public Policy.

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Publications

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Policy in hard times - How individuals’ energy insecurity shape energy, climate, and social policy preferences

Energy Policy (2025)
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Policy in hard times - How individuals’ energy insecurity shape energy, climate, and social policy preferences

Energy Policy Preferences in Times of Crisis - Evidence from Survey Experiments in the UK

Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (2024)
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Energy Policy Preferences in Times of Crisis - Evidence from Survey Experiments in the UK

Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation

European Journal of Political Research (2024)
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Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation

How Do Pocketbook and Distributional Concerns Affect Citizens’ Preferences for Carbon Taxation?

The Journal of Politics (2024)
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How Do Pocketbook and Distributional Concerns Affect Citizens’ Preferences for Carbon Taxation?

Systematic mapping of climate and environmental framing experiments and re-analysis with computational methods points to omitted interaction bias

PLOS Climate (2024)
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Systematic mapping of climate and environmental framing experiments and re-analysis with computational methods points to omitted interaction bias

Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies

Journal of European Social Policy (2024)
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Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies

Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs

Electoral Studies (2023)
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Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs

Command and control or market-based instruments? Public support for policies to address vehicular pollution in Beijing and New Delhi

Environmental Politics (2023)
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Command and control or market-based instruments? Public support for policies to address vehicular pollution in Beijing and New Delhi

COVID-19 led to a decline in climate and environmental concern, evidence from UK panel data

Climatic Change (2022)
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COVID-19 led to a decline in climate and environmental concern, evidence from UK panel data

The Consequences of Model Misspecification for the Estimation of Nonlinear Interaction Effects

Political Analysis (2022)
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The Consequences of Model Misspecification for the Estimation of Nonlinear Interaction Effects

Do policy clashes between the judiciary and the executive affect public opinion? Insights from New Delhi’s odd–even rule against air pollution

Journal of Public Policy (2022)
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Do policy clashes between the judiciary and the executive affect public opinion? Insights from New Delhi’s odd–even rule against air pollution

Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority

Comparative Political Studies (2022)
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Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority

Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods - How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy

Global Environmental Politics (2022)
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Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods - How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy

Separation and Rare Events

Political Science Research and Methods (2022)
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Separation and Rare Events

Current surveys may underestimate climate change skepticism evidence from list experiments in Germany and the USA

PLOS One (2021)
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Current surveys may underestimate climate change skepticism evidence from list experiments in Germany and the USA

Understanding public support for domestic contributions to global collective goods. Results from a survey experiment on carbon taxation in Japan

Climatic Change (2021)
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Problems with products? Control strategies for models with interaction and quadratic effects

Political Science Research and Methods (2020)
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Problems with products? Control strategies for models with interaction and quadratic effects

Do exemptions undermine environmental policy support? An experimental stress test on the odd‐even road space rationing policy in India

Regulation & Governance (2020)
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Do exemptions undermine environmental policy support? An experimental stress test on the odd‐even road space rationing policy in India

Could revenue recycling make effective carbon taxation politically feasible?

Science Advances (2019)
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Could revenue recycling make effective carbon taxation politically feasible?

Commitment failures are unlikely to undermine public support for the Paris agreement

Nature Climate Change (2019)
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Assessing the relative importance of psychological and demographic factors for predicting climate and environmental attitudes

Climatic Change (2018)
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How strong is public support for unilateral climate policy and what drives it?

WIREs Climate Change (2017)
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Insuring Against Past Perils - The Politics of Post-Currency Crisis Foreign Exchange Reserve Accumulation

Political Science Research and Methods (2017)
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Unilateral or Reciprocal Climate Policy? Experimental Evidence from China

Politics and Governance (2016)
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Simple reframing unlikely to boost public support for climate policy

Nature Climate Change (2016)
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Simple reframing unlikely to boost public support for climate policy

Estimating Onsets of Binary Events in Panel Data

Political Analysis (2015)
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Estimating Onsets of Binary Events in Panel Data

Teaching

London School of Economics and Political Science

2022 -

  • Politics of Social Policy Making (U) (2022-)
  • Social Policy of Climate Change (U) (2023-)
  • Global Social Policy and International Organisations (G) (22-23)

Royal Holloway, University of London

2020 - 2022

  • Global Environmental Politics (U) (20-21, 21-22)
  • International Organisations (U) (20-21)
  • International Political Economy (U) (20-21, 21-22)
  • International Public Policy (G) (21-22)

Universität Konstanz

2020

  • Comparative and International Environmental Politics (G)
  • Impact and Policy Evaluation (G)
  • Political Economy of Climate Change (U)

ETH Zürich

2015 - 2019

  • Essential Tools and Statistics for Impact and Policy Evaluation (G)
  • Methods II (G)
  • Research Seminar in International and Comparative Political Economy (G)
  • Statistics I: Introduction to Policy Analysis (G)

Block Courses

  • Universität Luzern: International Political Economy (G)
  • German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA): Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection and Analysis (G)

University of Essex

2010 - 2013 Teaching Assistant

  • GV200 Political Analysis (U)
  • GV518 International Negotiation (U/G)
  • GV903 Advanced Research Methods (G)

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis

2010 - 2013 Teaching Assistant

  • Bayesian Analysis in the Social Sciences (G)
  • Discrete Choice Models in the Social Sciences (G)
  • Maximum Likelihood and Limited Dependent Variable Models (G)
  • Multivariate Data Analysis (G)
  • Panel Data Analysis for Comparative Research (G)
  • Pooled Time-Series Cross-Sectional Analysis (G)
  • Selection and Strategic Models (G)

**(U)**ndergraduate, **(G)**raduate

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