Politics
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Bare, Fiona
Politics
Bare studies the political economy of climate change using game theory, statistical inference, and qualitative methods. Bare’s research explores the politics of uncertainty around climate change, including the impact of natural resource variability on cooperation. She is also interested in understanding how uncertainty affects bargaining power in international negotiations around climate finance and payment for ecosystem services. Another area of Bare’s research examines the role of non-state actors, such as private firms and interest groups, in climate policymaking. Bare is advised by Kris Ramsay, professor in the Department of Politics.
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Levine, Gabriel (‘21 - ‘22)
Politics
Levine examines the intellectual history of environmental law in the United States, focusing on the mid-to-late twentieth century. He is particularly interested in how academics constructed the “environment” as a legal category, and in the uses and limitations of law for redressing environmental harms today. He is advised by Jan-Werner Müller, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics of Politics.
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Hidalgo, Javier (‘09 - ‘10)
Politics
Javier’s research interests included global justice, particularly the ethics of immigration, and intergenerational justice. Regarding intergenerational justice, Javier was interested in a cluster of different issues: the ethics of discounting, the non-identity problem, and the distribution of responsibility for mitigating climate change.
