SRINIVAS C. PARINANDI

Hello and welcome! I am an Associate Professor in Political Science  at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  I am also Fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint effort between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Colorado. I am also Fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Science.

I research American political institutions and look at how the design of institutions and rules influences policy outcomes, and I look at how institutional characteristics drive novel policymaking. I primarily study the U.S. states with an emphasis on three policy pillars: energy (including the electricity sector and electric vehicles), technology (including AI), and health (including opioids). I care deeply about how policy impacts human capital across the U.S. states.

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, has been published or is forthcoming at the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Energy Policy, Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy​, Policy Studies Journal​, the Journal of Public Policy, Political Research Quarterly, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly among other outlets. I published a book, Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy, from University of Michigan Press in 2023. A second book, ​The Political Economy of Electric Vehicles: A Global Perspective, is under contract from Cambridge University Press. 

Feel free to contact me at Srinivas.Parinandi@colorado.edu with any questions. Thanks for visiting.