Michael Lerner

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I'm on the committee for this year's APSA Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award. Please send in nominations of excellent science/tech/environmental politics dissertations (including your own!) by March 1st!

"Green subsidies" are often justified on (implicitly) political grounds. Below, I've tried to summarise, explicate, and extend some of these arguments (👇). 1/n

Is it possible to phase out coal and still win an election? Yes! Excited that my paper w @fergusgreen & Mikel González-Eguino on the electoral success of #JustTransition policies in coalmining communities is now available #OpenAccess in @apsrjournal doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

Yesterday at @LSEIRDept I presented on experts’ views of carbon pricing in the Global South, a part of a larger project that some of us (@michaelhlerner @gardmurray and 7 others, most outside the academy) have been involved in for a year. Grateful for the opportunity!

It was an honor and a pleasure to finally meet @haroldpollack in person – thanks again for the hard work you, @paashamahdavi and @anacweeks for your hard work on the Lasswell award committee!

🚨 New LSE job advert 🚨 *Assistant Professor in Political Science and Public Policy* Join us at ⁦@LSEGovernment⁩! More details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/12…

Who is blocking climate action and how? We finally have a network to support the work of social scientists studying this question. It's called the Climate Social Science Network, @ClimateSSn. We are now 400+ scholars in 38 countries.Latest stuff and links cssn.org/news-research/

🎉 Congratulations to Michael Lerner from LSE Department of Government for receiving the @APSAtweets Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public policy! #PartofLSE ow.ly/zwFk50PwBFA

Michael Lerner Receives the 2023 Harold D. Lasswell Award politicalsciencenow.com/michael-lerner…

An article I started working on in my 1st year of gradschool has found a home, conditionally accepted @cps_journal! Will work on a thread a bit later, but thank you very much for everyone who provided so much helpful feedback and suggestions, including the three reviewers!

@BenDPyle @Econ_Mike @jjprescott2009 @BrianJacobProf @UM_CJARS @umichECON @UMichLaw Congratulations Ben!! Well deserved after a lot of hard work (and despite my attempts to distract you with questions about my own projects!)

Thanks @Econ_Mike! I am so grateful for the support & mentorship my committee (@Econ_Mike @jjprescott2009 , @BrianJacobProf , Charlie Brown) and many others have so generously given! I feel very fortunate to have learned from and community with @UM_CJARS, @umichECON & @UMichLaw

📢Call for Proposals. 10th edition of the Environmental Politics & Governance (EPG) Conference. Quebec City, June 18-21, 2024. Submit your proposal before Oct 16. ➡️ epg2024.com

New paper alert, with @jonasmeckling, just published at @Gov_Journal (open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…) on the interest group politics of climate policy in the U.S. A thread:

A great dissertation in a field of truly outstanding nominees. A humbling experience to read the remarkable work of junior scholars. Every one of the dissertations I read was a fine contribution. The field is in good hands.

Ph. D. ‘21 graduate, @michaelhlerner, was awarded the APSA’s Harold D. Lasswell Award for his dissertation, "Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership.“ myumi.ch/EPede

I’m grateful to @umichpolisci for nominating me for this award and thanks to @haroldpollack, @paashamahdavi, and @anacweeks for their time and effort on the award committee! To learn more about my dissertation, check out hdl.handle.net/2027.42/169702

I’m delighted to share some exciting news – I’ve received the @APSAtweets Harold D. Lasswell dissertation award for public policy! In my PhD, I showed that NGOs and multinationals catalyze/inhibit gov't leadership in environmental policy.

Big kudos to Patrick for organizing the 2023 edition of EPG! Sad to miss it this year but @michaelhlerner will be presenting our World Bank-supported work on expert preferences for carbon pricing so will be there in spirit!

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Across the Boards: Explaining Firm Support for Climate Policy - cup.org/3PxJdVr - @michaelhlerner & Iain Osgood (@MSU_poli_sci)