​Srinivas C. Parinandi

​​​​​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 and at the Institute for Behavioral Science.


I study 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 particularly research the political economy of the U.S. states with an emphasis on energy and technology (including AI). I care about how policy and regulation impact human capital.​


My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and has been published in several leading academic journals, such as the American Journal of Political Science and Journal of Politics among other outlets. My first book, from University of Michigan Press and entitled Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy, offers a meticulous account of novel policy-making concerning renewable energy across the U.S. states and explains how that policy-making differs across legislative and regulatory institutions. My second book project, The Political Economy of Electric Vehicles: A Global Perspective, examines political economic cycles in global electric vehicle policy and is under contract and review at Cambridge University Press. I am currently writing a third book about the political economy of AI policy (and broader implications on energy) in the United States.


​Please contact Srinivas.Parinandi@colorado.edu with any questions and thanks for visiting.