Sam Zacher

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale University. I study the politics of inequality, redistribution, and the climate crisis in the contemporary United States. 

My dissertation focuses on the politics of taxation and redistribution within the Democratic Party. I highlight the shift of affluent voters from the Republican to Democratic coalitions and empirically evaluate the impacts of this epochal shift on Democratic voter preferences and policy agendas of contemporary Democratic elites. I also study the U.S. politics and political economy of climate, race and ethnicity, gender, and housing. My research has been published in Perspectives on Politics and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 

I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2016 with a B.A. in political science and economics. I currently live in Los Angeles, CA, and I also write about and organize in the climate movement. 

Email: sam.zacher@yale.edu. Twitter: @samzacher.