Silvia Pianta

I am a Junior Scientist at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment. I  received my Ph.D. in Public Policy from Bocconi University in February 2021. In 2021-2022, I was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. In the past, I held visiting positions at the Hertie School in Berlin and at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. In 2023-2025, I was the deputy coordinator of the Horizon Europe Project CAPABLE, a collaborative project of 11 institutions focusing on climate policy in Europe. 

I study the political economy of climate change, employing quasi-experimental designs, experimental methods, and computational text analysis techniques. My research focuses on public opinion, political behavior, and the role of parties and politicians in climate policymaking processes. My work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, and Nature Climate Change, among other journals.

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