Building public support for ambitious climate policy requires understanding what shapes people’s attitudes toward climate change and how they respond to different ways of communicating the issue. My research in this area examines the effectiveness of framing strategies — whether reframing climate policy around co-benefits like jobs or health can increase support — and finds that the evidence is more nuanced than commonly assumed.
A central question for environmental policy is how individuals' material conditions shape their willingness to support costly action on climate change and the environment. My research in this area examines how energy insecurity, labour market risk, and broader economic crises affect preferences for energy, climate, and social policy.
Societies face complex long-term challenges — from climate change to ageing populations to crumbling infrastructure — that require difficult trade-offs in how resources are allocated and who should make those decisions.
Carbon taxes are widely regarded as one of the most effective and economically efficient policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Yet they face significant political hurdles due to their visible costs and distributional consequences.
Air pollution is one of the most pressing environmental challenges in rapidly developing countries, with severe consequences for public health. My research in this area focuses on public support for air pollution control policies in major Asian cities, including Beijing and New Delhi.
Rigorous quantitative methods are essential for drawing reliable causal inferences in the social sciences. My methodological research addresses key challenges in statistical modelling that arise across empirical political science. This includes work on how interaction and quadratic effects can be biased by omitted nonlinearities, how standard approaches to binary dependent variable models can produce misleading results in the presence of separation and rare events, and how the common practice of transforming binary event data to study onsets can distort substantive conclusions.
Climate change mitigation is a global collective action problem, yet the shift from the Kyoto Protocol’s binding targets to the Paris Agreement’s voluntary nationally determined contributions has fundamentally changed how international cooperation works.