Sam Zacher

Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California. I study the politics and public policy of inequality, redistribution, and climate change in the contemporary United States. 

My dissertation centers 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, housing, labor, race and ethnicity, and gender from both institutional and behavioral perspectives. My research has been published or is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 

I completed my Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. 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: szacher@usc.edu. Twitter: @samzacher.