research

peer-reviewed articles

  1. Melnick, Justin. 2025. Domestic Inequality, Heterogeneous Redistribution, and the Globalization Backlash. Forthcoming, Journal of Theoretical Politics.

    [manuscript]

  2. Melnick, Justin and Alastair Smith. 2025. Shaming Paris: A Political Economy of Climate Commitments. Forthcoming, International Organization.

    [manuscript] [appendix]

  3. Melnick, Justin, Alastair Smith, and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. 2024. Political Life Cycles. Forthcoming, Journal of Politics.

    [manuscript] [appendix] [replication]

  4. Melnick, Justin. 2024. Domestic Politics in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System: Evidence from Free Allowance Allocation. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 5(4): 627-657.

    [journal] [pre-print] [appendix]

  5. Melnick, Justin and Alastair Smith. 2023. International Negotiations in the Shadow of Elections. Journal of Conflict Resolution 67(7-8): 1452-1481.

    [journal] [pre-print] [appendix]

working papers

  1. Melnick, Justin. 2025. Information and Climate (In)action. (under review)

    [manuscript] [appendix]

  2. Melnick, Justin. 2025. Global Public Goods Provision, Information Dissemination, and Domestic Politics. (under review)

    [manuscript] [appendix]

works in progress

  1. Melnick, Justin, 2025. Climate Change Policy is in Season: Complementarities in Global Climate Action.

  2. Melnick, Justin. 2024. Where Did the Green Voters Go?

  3. Conevska, Aleksandra and Justin Melnick. 2023. Policy Interventions as Experimental Treatments: Applications to Climate Politics.

other writing

  1. Jan, Farah and Justin Melnick. 2019. After Trump’s Hong Kong Democracy Act, China Is Still Winning, Foreign Policy.

    [link]

  2. Jan, Farah and Justin Melnick. 2020. China’s Challenge to America’s Political and Economic Liberal Order, The National Interest.

    [link]