About Me
I am a political scientist whose research focusses on the politics of climate change, particularly public attitudes towards climate change. I received my PhD from Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) in 2021, and was awarded a MBIE Science Whitinga Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I successfully completed in October 2023. I am interested in comparative politics more broadly, including the many different ways democracy functions in different countries. I am comfortable using both quantitative and qualitative methods, and often use complex computational methods in my research.
I run the blog “Three Long Years”, where I write about NZ and climate politics.
Recent Publications
Fraenkel, J., & Crawley, S. (2025). Does Ethnic Fractionalization Lead to Polarization? Introducing a new Dataset on Communal Party Affiliations. Ethnopolitics. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2025.2516905
Coffé, H., Crawley, S., & Givens, J. (2025). Growing polarisation: Ideology and attitudes towards climate change. West European Politics, 0(0), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2435727
Crawley, S., & Chapman, R. (2025). Resolution and resistance: What shaped New Zealand’s climate change policies under the sixth Labour government? Political Science, 0(0), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00323187.2024.2446333
Barker, F., & Crawley, S. (2024). Selecting Diversity: Ethnicity, Party Strategies and Candidate Selection in New Zealand Elections, 1996–2020. Political Studies, 00323217241300028. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241300028
Crawley, S. (2024). In the Shadow of Covid-19? Climate change and the 2020 election. In J. Curtin, L. Greaves, & J. Vowles (Eds.), A Team of Five Million?: The 2020 ‘Covid-19’ New Zealand General Election (1st ed., pp. 247–273). ANU Press. https://doi.org/10.22459/TFM.2024.09
Crawley, S. (2024). Conservative worldviews and the climate publics of New Zealand and Australia. International Journal Of Public Opinion Research, 36(2), edae027. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edae027