Talbot M. Andrews

About

Talbot M. Andrews is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research focuses on the intersection of climate change, public opinion, and governance, with a particular emphasis on studying public support for climate change policies. He is also broadly interested in the public's ability to hold elected officials accountable and how public opinion is shaped by disasters. While much of his work is based in the United States, he collaborates with a team studying climate change literacy across Africa. Andrews' research has been published in prominent journals such as The Journal of Politics, Nature Climate Change, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Analysis. He has authored the book "Climate Games: Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster" and contributed to the Cambridge Elements series with "Emotions on Our Screens," part of the Politics and Communication series. Prior to his current position at Cornell, he was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Stony Brook University in August 2020 and completed a postdoctoral research associate position at Princeton University from 2020 to 2021.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Ecology
• Psychology
• Natural resource economics
• Environmental science
• Public relations
• Sociology
• Geography
• Law

Selected publications

• Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau

  Global Environmental Change · 2025-02-08 · 9 citations

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  • Only 26 % of Tibetan farmers perceive significant warming in their region. • Rate of temperature change significantly influences climate change perception. • Income predicts climate awareness among Tibetan farmers and herders. Vulnerable groups living in climate-sensitive areas are facing unprecedented risks. Their perception of the changing climate and its impacts has potentially significant influence over the choices they make in response. However, our understanding of the climate change per…

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• Most Africans place primary responsibility for climate action on their own government

  Communications Earth & Environment · 2025-04-04 · 4 citations

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  Global increase in the pace of climate action is urgent. Yet, it is less clear who citizens expect to take the lead on climate action across different regions of the world: historical emitters, their own governments, or themselves? Our analysis of Africa’s largest public opinion survey, the Afrobarometer, across 39 countries finds that Africans place primary responsibility for addressing climate change on their own government, a further third see ordinary citizens as most responsible, while very…

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• The winds of change? Attitudes toward wind projects and their electoral implications in Texas

  Energy Policy · 2025-03-20 · 3 citations

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• Paying attention and paying the costs: wildfires in the American West

  Climatic Change · 2025-08-30 · 2 citations

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• Climate Games

  University of Michigan Press eBooks · 2023-07-19 · 2 citations

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  Can humanity work together to mitigate the effects of climate change?<I> Climate Games</I> argues we can. This book brings together a decade and a half of experimentation, conducted by researchers around the world, which shows that people can and will work together to prevent disasters like climate change. These experiments, called <I>economic games</I>, put money on the line to create laboratory disasters. Participants must work together by spending a bit of money now to prevent themselves from…

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Frequent coauthors

• Ioannis D. Evrigenis

  81 shared

• Ted Enamorado

  Washington University in St. Louis

  81 shared

• David Fortunato

  University of California, San Diego

  81 shared

• Peter Bils

  Vanderbilt University

  81 shared

• Leslie K. Finger

  University of North Texas

  81 shared

• T.H. Curtis

  University of North Texas

  81 shared

• Andrew W. Delton

  Stony Brook University

  8 shared

• Reuben Kline

  8 shared

Labs

• Talbot AndrewsPI

Education

• PhD Student, Political Science

  Stony Brook University

• B.A., Political Science/Psychology

  University of Portland

  2016

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