About
Dr. Liam F. Beiser-McGrath is an Associate Professor in International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy.
Liam is also 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 an Editor for the journal Environmental Politics and the organiser of EPG Online, an online seminar series covering Environmental Politics and Governance.
For further information please visit Liam's website, their CV and Google Scholar page.
Research
Liam’s research primarily focuses on the political economy of climate change, using experimental research designs and machine learning. Current topics include:
1. How the design of policy can increase public support for tackling climate change and environmental problems.
2. How individuals' economic conditions, and economic inequality more broadly, affects willingness to support costly climate policy.
3. The importance of international action and ambition in building support for meaningful emissions reductions.
This research has been published in leading 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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