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🎓 Associate Professor @ LSE 🌍 Researching climate policy & public opinion 📊 Research-based insights | Methods | AI & teaching 🌐 liambeisermcgrath.com 🔗 https://linktr.ee/liambeisermcgrath
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14.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Energy vulnerability doesn't just create demand for bill support — it potentially generates new policy coalitions around climate investment and social protection.
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Additionally, whether you EXPECT to struggle with energy bills next year is more important than whether you struggled last year.
Forward-looking anxiety drives policy preferences more than past hardship.
While they want immediate economic relief, investments that focus on root causes (i.e. energy dependence) are acceptable
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There's a divergence when considering climate and social polciy preferences
For climate policy: Energy insecure citizens prioritize INVESTMENT over compensation
For social policy: They want COMPENSATION over investment
Energy insecure households are more likely to support both compensation (bill support) and investment (renewables) energy policies.
But the spillovers to other issue areas get interesting...
To better understand these results Fig. 3 displays how the association between individuals’ energy insecurity and climate policy preferences translates into overall support for each policy type. Similar to Fig. 2 we see that those experiencing and expecting energy insecurity have almost identical policy preferences. However, unlike the results for energy pol- icy, we also see that achieving majority support for a policy type depends upon energy insecurity. We see that there is only a significant major- ity supporting investment-based climate policy amongst those who are energy insecure. In contrast, for those who did not previously experi- ence energy insecurity or do not expect to be energy insecure, support is not significantly different from indifference for investment-based cli- mate policy. Turning to compensation based policy, we see a different picture where there is a significant majority not supporting compensa- tion based climate policy amongst those who did not experience and are not expecting energy insecurity. In contrast, for those who have experi- enced or expect energy insecurity, support is not significantly different from indifference. This suggests that the patterns exhibited in Fig. 1, with majority support for investment and a lack of support for compensation, are driven by whether individuals are energy insecure or not.
New paper out in Energy Policy:
Energy insecurity doesn't just affect energy policy preferences—it spills over into climate and social policy support too.
Excited to chair this talk at LSE with Prof Helen Milner next month.
🗓️ Mon 10 Nov, 18:30–20:00 (UK)
📍 Sheikh Zayed Theatre + online
Registration is free and there will be a drinks reception afterwards
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My department is currently hiring at the Assistant Professor level in the area of crime and/or criminal justice.
I am on the search committee so feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Environmental Politics is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal spanning the fields of political science, political sociology, and political theory. The journal provides a forum for the publication of original research into, and discussion and analysis of, the diverse theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental politics. The journal’s 2024 Impact Factor is 5.9, ranking 4/322 in Political Science and 29/191 in Environmental Studies. The journal is recruiting a Social Media Editor to manage its external communications. Responsibilities for this position include: Managing social media accounts (currently Bluesky, X, Substack) and the journal website Posting and circulating all journal and website publications Arranging and editing guest posts and interviews with authors We welcome expressions of interest from scholars of environmental politics from any higher education institution. We strongly encourage applications from early career individuals, including advanced PhD students and post-doctoral fellows, and we would specifically welcome applications from historically underrepresented groups and those whose intersectional identities and perspectives position them to support the editorial team’s commitment to an inclusive conception of environmental politics scholarship. The journal’s Aims and Scope, and the current membership of the editorial team and Editorial Advisory Board, are available at: tandfonline.com/fenp The Social Media Editor position comes with a modest stipend. Please send expressions of interest (no more than 2 pages), along with a brief CV, to David Konisky, Editor-in-Chief, (dkonisky@iu.edu). Reviews will begin October 15, 2025, and applications will be considered until the position is filled.
Call for expressions of interest: We are seeking a Social Media Editor to join our editorial team.
Responsibilities for this position include:
- Running social media & website
- Circulating all publications
- Arranging & editing guest posts
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Excited for #APSA2025 in Vancouver! I’ll be presenting new work on greenwashing with @liambeisermcgrath.bsky.social on Saturday, at 2pm, at East Meeting Level, East 18.
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Looking forward to a packed week of exciting research, meeting new people, and catching up with colleagues at #APSA2025 in Vancouver! 👋
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Later on Saturday: presenting new work on greenwashing with @jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social 🌱
📍 East Meeting Level, East 18
🕑 14:00
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#APSA2025 #Greenwashing #ClimatePolitics #EnvPol #polisky
Saturday morning: I’ll be chairing the panel on Voter and Government Responses to Climate Disasters.
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#DisasterPolitics
Friday highlight: Aseem Prakash’s Gaus Award Lecture on Climate Change, Governance Failures, and Public Administration 🌎📉
Followed by a post-talk reception.
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/2ccnepfa
On Thursday: the @epgonline.bsky.social get-together! 🍻
📍 The Cambie Bar & Grill
🕖 19:00, Sept 11
If you’re at #APSA2025, come join! Sign up for updates: forms.gle/UmzN3sXtLahY...
Kicking things off on Wednesday with the PECE pre-conference—lots of fascinating work at the intersection of political economy & climate/environment 🌍
🔗 www.pece-conference.org/vancouver-2025
#APSA2025 #PolEcon #EnvPol
Excited to be heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025 this week! 🌲🇨🇦 Here’s what I’ll be up to ⬇️
#polisky #ClimatePolitics
Some exciting updates from @epgonline.bsky.social
1️⃣ CfP for EPG Online
2️⃣ Job market resources
3️⃣ #APSA2025 meet-up
Really glad to see these initiatives kicking off for the new academic year, and I’m looking forward to catching up with many of you in Vancouver! 🍁
#polisky #poliscijobs #psjobs
Don’t miss out—submit by Sunday, 24 Aug!
We look forward to welcoming you in London this November 🌿📚
✅ No registration fee
✅ Meals & social events covered
✅ Possible accommodation support for ECRs
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Keynote: Helen Milner (Princeton) on her new book Fault Lines: The New Political Economy of a Warming World (with Alexander F. Gazmararian).
Followed by a full day of papers + discussions.
We welcome 750-word abstracts on the distributional impacts of climate change & environmental change.
Fields: 🌍 economics, political science, public/social policy, sociology & related areas.
📢 Quick reminder: Deadline this Sunday (24 Aug) to submit abstracts for the Workshop on Climate Change, Inequality & Policy Contestation (10–11 Nov 2025, LSE).
Hosted by @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social in partnership with @gsos-lse.bsky.social
🔗 Submit: forms.gle/x3Css36pU8kb...
For further information visit www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
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🎤 Kicking off with a public keynote by Helen Milner (Princeton) on Fault Lines: The New Political Economy of a Warming World.
We hope you can join us in London in November!
We’re seeking theoretically informed & empirically grounded papers across economics, political science, public/social policy, sociology & more.
Submit a 750-word abstract by 24 Aug 2025 👉 forms.gle/x3Css36pU8kb...
📢 Call for Papers! Join us at the Climate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation workshop, hosted by LSE’s @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social, @gsos-lse.bsky.social & the Sustainable Social Policy & Welfare States Hub.
🗓️ 10–11 Nov 2025, London
📢 Call for papers to be presented at a workshop on "Climate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation" from 10th - 11th November 2025, hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social and the Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social
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Excited to share that my first single-authored article is now published in @wepsocial.bsky.social!
In light of the current backlash to climate policy, I explore the (rural) geography of support for climate policies in Europe.
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