Hi! I'm Dr. Brett Meyer. I received my PhD in political science from Columbia University and I am currently an Engagement Tutor in the London School of Economics Public Policy Analysis online course. I specialize in quantitative and qualitative methods and my policy and academic work have used a variety of methods including regression and time series analysis, surveys and survey experiments, elite actor interviews and focus groups, and causal inference methods in both quantitative and qualitative data.
Previously, I was a Senior Policy Advisor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where I was the principal researcher for the Institute's work on global populism and on public sentiment around climate change in Europe. I helped developed and was in charge of maintaining our global Populists in Power database, an importance source on populist leaders for the academic and policy communities and for the media. I produced over a dozen policy reports and short pieces using this database, including a yearly series updating the database and reporting on trends in global populism as well as a series of pieces on how populist leaders handled Covid-19. I presented this work in several outlets, including on Fareed Zakaria's CNN program Global Public Sphere. I also originated our work on public sentiment around climate change in Europe, publishing four reports focusing on the the relationship between other political views and climate attitudes, the public's willingness to make different types of behavioral changes to reduce climate change and, most recently, a series of survey experiments on how information about climate technology and different types of climate policy designs affected support for climate policy.
My academic research was on labor market politics and the evolution of labor market politics in advanced democracies, including how labor markets affected support for populist politicians. My research topics include how populist leaders have affected central bank independence, why some countries in Europe don't have a legal minimum wage, how technological change and financial markets have weakened trade unions, and how job insecurity affects support for right wing populist parties. My published work appeared in a variety of leading journals in political science, public policy, and sociology, including World Politics, Research and Politics, Journal of Public Policy, and Socio-Economic Review. Much of this research was conducted as part of my Ph.D dissertation under Prof. Isabela Mares and was supported by grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. I was a post-doctoral fellow at the London School of Economics from Fall 2015-Summer 2018.
I'm also an avid golfer with a strong interest in golf course architecture. I used my post-doc in London as an opportunity to play and take photographs of many of the great golf courses in southern England and Wales. Since early 2016, I've taken pictures of over 100 courses, including those I played in the UK and Ireland, plus several in my home state of Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. I've written up full analyses of over 90 of these courses with a full set of pictures to accompany the text in the Golf Course Reviews section above.
My resume
Previously, I was a Senior Policy Advisor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where I was the principal researcher for the Institute's work on global populism and on public sentiment around climate change in Europe. I helped developed and was in charge of maintaining our global Populists in Power database, an importance source on populist leaders for the academic and policy communities and for the media. I produced over a dozen policy reports and short pieces using this database, including a yearly series updating the database and reporting on trends in global populism as well as a series of pieces on how populist leaders handled Covid-19. I presented this work in several outlets, including on Fareed Zakaria's CNN program Global Public Sphere. I also originated our work on public sentiment around climate change in Europe, publishing four reports focusing on the the relationship between other political views and climate attitudes, the public's willingness to make different types of behavioral changes to reduce climate change and, most recently, a series of survey experiments on how information about climate technology and different types of climate policy designs affected support for climate policy.
My academic research was on labor market politics and the evolution of labor market politics in advanced democracies, including how labor markets affected support for populist politicians. My research topics include how populist leaders have affected central bank independence, why some countries in Europe don't have a legal minimum wage, how technological change and financial markets have weakened trade unions, and how job insecurity affects support for right wing populist parties. My published work appeared in a variety of leading journals in political science, public policy, and sociology, including World Politics, Research and Politics, Journal of Public Policy, and Socio-Economic Review. Much of this research was conducted as part of my Ph.D dissertation under Prof. Isabela Mares and was supported by grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. I was a post-doctoral fellow at the London School of Economics from Fall 2015-Summer 2018.
I'm also an avid golfer with a strong interest in golf course architecture. I used my post-doc in London as an opportunity to play and take photographs of many of the great golf courses in southern England and Wales. Since early 2016, I've taken pictures of over 100 courses, including those I played in the UK and Ireland, plus several in my home state of Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. I've written up full analyses of over 90 of these courses with a full set of pictures to accompany the text in the Golf Course Reviews section above.
My resume