Alexander F. Gazmararian is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is on the 2024-25 academic job market.

He studies political economy. His research agenda examines how people and governments respond to economic changes, and the relationship between institutions and political behavior. Substantive applications of his work focus on understanding political barriers that prevent action on climate change.

His research has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Behavior, Energy Policy, and Energy Research & Social Science.

In 2023, he published Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse (Cambridge University Press, The Politics of Climate Change Series) with Dustin Tingley. This book has won three awards including the American Political Science Association's Don K. Price Award for the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the last year.

He is finishing his next book, Climate Fault Lines: The Political Economy of a Warming World (Princeton University Press), with Helen V. Milner.