Hi! I'm Dr. Brett Meyer and I am currently a research fellow for the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and received my Ph.D in political science from Columbia University in 2015. My policy work for the institute has focused on populist leaders around the world, including two reports at the beginning of 2020 and 2021 updating our Populists in Power database and more recently, a paper examining how populist leaders have handled the covid crisis. These pieces have been accompanied by op-eds in The Independent and Inside Story. My current work for the institute includes analysis of how western European populist parties responded to Covid-19 and the evolution of British public opinion on climate change and climate change policies.
My academic research was in labor market politics and voting behavior in advanced democracies. My research topics included the 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. 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 close to 100 courses, including those I played in the UK, plus several in my home state of Michigan, my adopted home of Washington D.C., Wisconsin, and North Carolina. I've begun writing up analyses of these courses in the Golf Course Reviews section above. I'm trying to finish working my way through UK course reviews now before the beginning of the 2021 season when I hope to add some more.
Current CV:
My academic research was in labor market politics and voting behavior in advanced democracies. My research topics included the 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. 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 close to 100 courses, including those I played in the UK, plus several in my home state of Michigan, my adopted home of Washington D.C., Wisconsin, and North Carolina. I've begun writing up analyses of these courses in the Golf Course Reviews section above. I'm trying to finish working my way through UK course reviews now before the beginning of the 2021 season when I hope to add some more.
Current CV:
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