Alexander F. Gazmararian is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is on the 2024-25 academic job market.
He studies political economy. His research agenda examines how people and governments respond to economic changes, and the relationship between institutions and political behavior. Substantive applications of his work focus on understanding political barriers that prevent action on climate change.
His research has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Behavior, Energy Policy, and Energy Research & Social Science.
He published Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse (Cambridge University Press, The Politics of Climate Change Series) in 2023 with Dustin Tingley. The book asks why the world is not moving fast enough to solve the climate crisis, and proposes solutions for more credible policies that build support for the energy transition. Uncertain Futures has won three awards including the American Political Science Association's Don K. Price Award for the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the last year.
He is finishing his next book, Climate Fault Lines: The Political Economy of a Warming World (Princeton University Press), with Helen V. Milner. The book argues that as the world warms, climate politics is transforming, cutting new political cleavages that divide people, businesses, and governments.
Alex holds the Prize Fellowship in the Social Sciences. Princeton University also awarded him the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship in recognition of outstanding academic performance and professional promise.
All publications, working papers, and replication materials are available here.
