research

peer-reviewed articles

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

    [journal] [pre-print]

  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.

    [manuscript] [appendix]

  2. Melnick, Justin. 2025. Where Did the Green Voters Go? Green Party Vote Shares and Public Support for Climate Policy.

    [manuscript] [appendix]

  3. Kennard, Amanda and Justin Melnick. 2025. Divergent Decarbonization: Great Power Competition and the Coming Climate Transition.

works in progress

  1. Melnick, Justin. 2025. Free-Riding and Learning in International Climate Policy.

  2. Melnick, Justin. 2025. Coordination and Agency Problems in International Climate Finance.

  3. Melnick, Justin. 2025. Leaders and Followers in International Climate Politics.

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

other writing

case studies

  1. Melnick, Justin. 2023. The Politics of Formulating and Implementing Climate Policies in the Netherlands. EGAP.

    [pdf]

commentary

  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]