My name is Aleksandra Conevska and I am a PhD student in the Department of Government at Harvard University. I am currently a predoctoral fellow at the Harvard Sustainability, Transparency, Accountability Research (STAR) Lab. I am also a graduate Fellow at the Weatherhead Cluster on Climate Change, as well as the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Center for American Political Studies (CAPs). 

I am broadly interested in the politics of climate change and the  environment, with two broad research streams. The first stream focuses on applied research to establish policy-relevant evidence that can facilitate decarbonization, and includes my work with the Harvard STAR Lab, where I help design and implement randomized control trials (RCTs) on climate-related interventions with public and private sector partners. 

In my second stream of research, which incapsulates my dissertation project, I focus on how institutions affect the way political parties and interests can respond to, and incorporate, decisive political issues, such as climate change, into government agendas. I am particularly interested in how electoral systems affect the strategies parties are incentivized to take to address climate change, which I examine in both the European and US context. I also use experimental methods to understand pro-climate political engagement amongst youth, with a focus on social norms and defiance sentiments. 

A long term goal with this research agenda is to establish rigorous predictive details that can inform voters how to strategically cast their vote in varying institutional and electoral contexts if they wish to maximize positive environmental outcomes. 

My previous research has focused on how natural disasters impact trade in context of the deep preferential liberalization, as well as climate change adaptation,  the status of global food system adaptation,  and the institutional design and capacity of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). My research has been published in journals including International Studies Quarterly, Climate Policy, Climate and Development and Energy Research & Social Science. 

You can reach me at: aleksandraconevska[AT]fas[DOT]harvard[DOT]edu