Andreas Duit works in the field of comparative environmental politics, with special focus on the role of the state in addressing environmental problems. He mainly uses quantitative methods and cross-national panel data, but has also engaged in complex system analysis and survey data analysis. Duit is a currently Professor at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University and Guest Professor at Political Science Unit, Luleå University of Technology, and has also been a visiting scholar at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Department of Political Science, University of Washington. Duit has received funding from FORMAS, MISTRA, the Swedish Research Council, and Marcus and Marianne Wallenberg foundation.
Duit is currently leading the research projects GREENTRANS (The Great Green Transformation – Politics, Markets and Civil Society in the Anthropocene, funded by the Marcus and Marianne Wallenberg Foundation) and THERAPY (The Electoral Ramifications of Environmental Policy, funded by FORMAS).
The overarching aim of the project is to further knowledge about the role of the welfare state for climate policy attitudes. Are people more willing to accept decarbonization policies if they are compensated by a generous welfare state?
Human impacts on global ecosystems are now threatening the very foundations of human welfare and it is generally recognized that mitigating the ecological crisis will require a fundamental reorganization of the social, political, and economic world. In other words, we are facing a Great Green Transformation.
Many policies currently being enacted to slow climate change and environmental degradation will have distributive - and thereby political - implications.
This project analyzes how distributional effects of de-carbonizing policies are moderated by redistributive social policies, and how this in turn affects the support of incumbent governments. The project generates new knowledge on how countries can develop socially sustainable de-carbonizing policies.
The Design of International Institutions: Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Distribution in Global Governance. Why have international institutions over the past decades increasingly opened up to transnational actors, such as NGOs, social movements, and multinational corporations?
