Publications
Briggs, Lara and Zack Bowersox. 2024. “Justice Without Democracy? Understanding the Future of Energy Through the Inflation Reduction Act.” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 74: 23-43.
Current Research
Briggs, Lara. “Power to the People? Electricity Outages, Populism, and Electoral Backlash.”
Scheuch, Eric. G., Matthew H. Goldberg, Laura Thomas-Walters, Lara Briggs, and Anthony Leiserowitz (under review). “Repeated messaging increases the durability of political persuasion, but only in the short term.” Pre-print available at https://osf.io/preprints/osf/zd48k_v1.
Lee, Sanguk, Matthew H. Goldberg, Lara Briggs, Anthony Leiserowitz, and Huong Ha (under review). “From Silence to Whisper: Climate Change in U.S. News Media, 1984-2025.” Pre-print available at https://osf.io/tgxqe.
Working Papers
Briggs, Lara. “Infrastructural Failure and Retrospective Voting in Portugal.”
Briggs, Lara. “Voting Rules and International Cooperation: The Case of EU Energy Sanctions.”
Briggs, Lara. “A Shock to the System: Renewable Energy Investment Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.”
Research Experience
ETH Zürich
Academic Guest, International Political Economy and Environmental Politics, Summer 2026.
Washington University in St. Louis
Research assistant for Carly Wayne, Summer 2023.