Liam F. Beiser-McGrath

New paper out in Ecological Economics with @gonzalezrostani.bsky.social and @aklin.bsky.social! We look at how long-term labor market risk from automation shapes people's environmental attitudes and climate policy preferences 🧵

The takeaway for climate policy: subsidies and green investment don't trigger backlash from at-risk workers the way carbon taxes do. If you want durable climate coalitions, policy design matters — especially as automation keeps reshaping who feels economically secure.

Paper is available via open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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People facing long-term job risk ultimately oppose policies that pile visible costs on top of their economic vulnerability.

Results hold with multiple measures of automation exposure (Frey-Osborne, RTI, job-based), with IV estimates using foreign robot adoption as an instrument, and with a variety of fixed effects.

The economy-environment tradeoff literature has found mixed results — recessions don't consistently tank green support. But we argue automation is different. It's not a temporary shock. It's a structural shift that permanently changes how people see their economic future.

Using ESS data (2002–2018) across 23 European countries, we find that workers in more automatable occupations are significantly less concerned about the environment and automation risk hits support for carbon taxes hard. In contrast, support for green subsidies is unaffected by automation risk.

forms.gleLSE Sustainable Social Policy Workshop 2026The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub at the London School of Economics and Political Science is hosting its second annual workshop on Tuesday 2nd June 2026. The workshop aim...

5 Mar

📣 CfP for 2nd Annual Workshop on Sustainable Social Policy Workshop: Tue 2 Jun 2026 (London). Submit 500-word abstract by Mon 9 Mar 2026: forms.gle/VLEZ81n72QCy... www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

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.

Energy vulnerability doesn't just create demand for bill support — it potentially generates new policy coalitions around climate investment and social protection.

Open-access publication available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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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.

While they want immediate economic relief, investments that focus on root causes (i.e. energy dependence) are acceptable

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.

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.

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...

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

lse.ac.ukFault lines | Helen Milner6.30pm Mon 10 Nov | Helen Milner | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

13 Oct 2025

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 www.lse.ac.uk/events/fault...

buff.lyDepartment of Social Policy | Available positionsJobs available in the Department of Social Policy

7 Oct 2025

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.

LSE Social Policy@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social

📢 We're hiring! We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor whose core research examines crime and/or criminal justice with a demonstrable research interest in international social and public policy. 📆 Applications close 2 November. More info here:

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Environmental Politics

@environmentalpol.bsky.social

29 Sept 2025

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 environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...

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Janina Beiser-McGrath

@jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social

10 Sept 2025

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. convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/aps...

Excited to be heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025 this week! 🌲🇨🇦 Here’s what I’ll be up to ⬇️ #polisky #ClimatePolitics

Later on Saturday: presenting new work on greenwashing with @jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social‬ 🌱 📍 East Meeting Level, East 18 🕑 14:00 🔗 tinyurl.com/ywbdkgf5 #APSA2025 #Greenwashing #ClimatePolitics #EnvPol #polisky

Looking forward to a packed week of exciting research, meeting new people, and catching up with colleagues at #APSA2025 in Vancouver! 👋

Excited to be heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025 this week! 🌲🇨🇦 Here’s what I’ll be up to ⬇️ #polisky #ClimatePolitics

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

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Saturday morning: I’ll be chairing the panel on Voter and Government Responses to Climate Disasters. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ynupd6t2 #DisasterPolitics

Excited to be heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025 this week! 🌲🇨🇦 Here’s what I’ll be up to ⬇️ #polisky #ClimatePolitics

pece-conference.orgPECE - Vancouver 2025PECE 2025 will be held Wednesday, September 10 in Vancouver, British Columbia at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Registration is now closed. The conference program...

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

forms.gleEPG Get-together @ APSA '25As in previous years, we will get together for informal drinks @ APSA this year. Thursday 11th September, 19:00 The Cambie Bar & Grill https://maps.app.goo.gl/jP5MYqaaW896YcHF7 Yours, Patrick Bayer...

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...

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

EPG Online@epgonline.bsky.social

As the academic year approaches, here are some updates on upcoming EPG events & initiatives 👇

forms.gleLSE Climate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation Workshop November 2025The Department of Social Policy in partnership with the Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) and Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub at the London School of Economics and Polit...

📢 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...

lse.ac.ukWorkshop on Climate Change | November 2025This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are working on how the distributional impacts of climate change and a changing environment shape society.

✅ No registration fee ✅ Meals & social events covered ✅ Possible accommodation support for ECRs More details 👉 www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

Don’t miss out—submit by Sunday, 24 Aug! We look forward to welcoming you in London this November 🌿📚

We welcome 750-word abstracts on the distributional impacts of climate change & environmental change. Fields: 🌍 economics, political science, public/social policy, sociology & related areas.

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.

📢 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

🎤 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!

lse.ac.ukClimate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation workshopThis workshop aims to bring together researchers who are working on how the distributional impacts of climate change and a changing environment shape society.

For further information visit www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social

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...

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LSE Social Policy

23 July 2025

📢 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 ➡️

buff.lyClimate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation workshopThis workshop aims to bring together researchers who are working on how the distributional impacts of climate change and a changing environment shape society.

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Theodore Tallent

@theodoretallent.bsky.social

1 July 2025

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. 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comA green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in EuropeOpposition to the green transition is often attributed to the direct costs of climate policies, with particularly vulnerable individuals perceived as more resistant. While recent studies suggest ru...

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Federica Genovese

@fgenovese.bsky.social

17 June 2025

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same? @patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵 osf.io/rtymv

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LSE Social Policy

@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social

16 June 2025

📢 We're hiring! We are looking to recruit an LSE Fellow to teach on our BSc and MSc programmes whilst also being fully engaged in our vibrant research culture! 📆 Applications close 14 July. buff.ly/MrNmi9d

lse.ac.ukJobs availableJobs available in the Department of Social Policy

forms.gleLSE Sustainable Social Policy Workshop 2025The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub at the London School of Economics and Political Science is hosting its inaugural workshop on Tuesday 24th June 2025. The workshop aims t...

14 Mar 2025

A reminder that the deadline for submissions is today! You can submit directly here: forms.gle/nBFpm7Xta1mg... Further details here: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

Liam F. Beiser-McGrath@liambeisermcgrath.bsky.social

If you work on topics related to climate change, (social) policy, and politics, broadly defined, then we'd love you to submit to our inaugural workshop taking place this June. More details below

10 Mar 2025

Thrilled to share that I have been awarded tenure with promotion to Associate Professor @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social I'm truly grateful for everyone who has helped me along the way and looking forward to the next phase of my career!

buff.lyInaugural WorkshopThis workshop aims to bring together researchers who are working on the social dimensions of climate change and the environment.

14 Feb 2025

If you work on topics related to climate change, (social) policy, and politics, broadly defined, then we'd love you to submit to our inaugural workshop taking place this June. More details below

LSE Social Policy@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social

📢 Call for papers to be presented at The Sustainable Social Policy & Welfare States Research Hub's inaugural workshop! Aims to showcase cutting edge research on the social dimensions of climate change & the environment. Info 👇 https://buff.ly/42UYG8E @liambeisermcgrath.bsky.social

18 Nov 2024

Looking forward to speaking at Oxford tomorrow!

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social

If in Oxford tomorrow, come for this talk by @liambeisermcgrath.bsky.social on public opinion on distributional energy/climate policy, 5pm at St Antony’s College

6 Nov 2023

Thanks again to @fgenovese.bsky.social for joining us last Friday, giving us plenty of food for thought (and optimism!) about the challenges facing the world over the coming years!

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social

At the Barbican Centre in London this afternoon I got to talk about inequalities and crises to LSE Social Policy students - thanks again @liambeisermcgrath.bsky.social The present is grim but I tried to convince the fab students in the room that the future can be brighter ☀️

epgnetwork.orgEnvironmental Politics and Governance

17 Oct 2023

A thread on some of the activities and resources available through the @epgonline.bsky.social

EPG Online@epgonline.bsky.social

The Environmental Politics and Governance network (epgnetwork.org) is now here! A thread with the events we run and resources offered related to the academic job market 🧵

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EPG Online

@epgonline.bsky.social

17 Oct 2023

The Environmental Politics and Governance network (epgnetwork.org) is now here! A thread with the events we run and resources offered related to the academic job market 🧵

epgnetwork.orgEnvironmental Politics and Governance

lse.ac.ukEnvironmental Politics & GovernanceThe in-person viewing of the Environmental Politics and Governance online seminar series

17 Oct 2023

@epgonline.bsky.social is now on bsky Follow for updates related to the Environmental Politics and Governance Network (epgnetwork.org) and our online seminar EPG Online (www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...)