Lauren Yehle
About Lauren Yehle
Lauren Yehle is a PhD researcher in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Her doctoral project, The Political Feasibility of Compensation: On the Limits and Possibilities for Environmental Policy, examines when and why compensation mechanisms can reduce resistance to environmental policies addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. The project focuses on public willingness to compensate different types of policy losers and the implications this has for political feasibility, legitimacy, and coalition building.
Her research clusters into three main areas: environmental policy attitudes, the politics of natural disasters and environmental risk, and survey design and methodology, including the use of generative AI. Methodologically, she works primarily with survey experiments and comparative public opinion data. Her recent work has been published in World Development and the Journal of Public Policy. She is affiliated with the Global and Local Development Institute (GLD).