Scholars
Parrish Bergquist
University of Pennsylvania
Based in
United States
North America
I am an Assistant Professor at at the University of Pennsylvania’s Political Science Department. I study the political determinants of environmental policy—in the US and abroad—with a particular focus on public will and political behavior. The three major strands of my research focus on explaining the development of attitudes and policy views about climate change and the environment, examining how public environmental concern is activated in the political system, and explaining the drivers and consequences of state-level climate policies in the polarized US political context. Throughout my work, I focus on environmental politics to develop and test theories on polarization, public opinion, persuasion, and mobilization. In turn, I apply these lines of theory to one of the most important contemporary policy challenges. My research has been published in scholarly outlets including the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, and Environmental Research Letters. I teach classes in environmental politics, public policy, and statistical methods. In my teaching I aim to help students apply theories and insights from political science, sociology, and economics to a wide range of public policy topics. I received my PhD from MIT in political science and urban studies & planning in 2019.
Country(ies) of Specialty
United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Renewable energy Public opinionPublications
Articles
Bergquist, Parrish, and Christopher
Warshaw. “How climate policy commitments influence energy systems and
the economies of US states.” Nature Communications 14.1 (2023): 4850.
Bergquist, Parrish, and Paasha
Mahdavi. “Examining the effect of cost information and framing on
support for methane regulations in Europe.” Environmental Research Letters 18.9 (2023): 094046.
Bergquist, Parrish, et al. “The
politics of intersecting crises: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on
climate policy preferences.” British Journal of Political Science 53.2 (2023): 707-716.
Bergquist, Parrish, et al.
“Information about the human causes of climate change influences climate
causal attribution, risk perceptions, and policy support.” Thinking & Reasoning 28.2 (2021): 1-13.
Bergquist, Parrish, David M. Konisky,
and John Kotcher. “Energy policy and public opinion: patterns, trends
and future directions.” Progress in Energy 2.3 (2020): 032003.
Bergquist, Parrish, Matto
Mildenberger, and Leah C. Stokes. “Combining climate, economic, and
social policy builds public support for climate action in the US.” Environmental Research Letters 15.5 (2020): 054019.
Bergquist, Parrish, et al. “Backyard
voices: how sense of place shapes views of large-scale energy
transmission infrastructure.” Energy research & social science 63 (2020): 101396.
Bergquist, Parrish, and Christopher Warshaw. “Does global warming increase public concern about climate change?.” The Journal of Politics 81.2 (2019): 686-691.