Juan Dodyk

Juan Dodyk holding his white cat Potato

Juan Dodyk

I am an Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. I study political economy, with a focus on climate policy, business lobbying, and formal political theory.

I received my Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.

You can find my research and teaching materials below, or download my CV.

Research interests

  • Climate policy and politics
  • Lobbying and money in politics
  • Formal political theory

Education

Ph.D. in Government, 2025
Harvard University

B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2017
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Research

Published

Family Ties as Corporate Power
with Pablo Balán and Ignacio Puente · The Journal of Politics, 2025
PDF · Appendix · Replication

The Political Behavior of Family Firms: Evidence from Brazil
with Pablo Balán and Ignacio Puente · World Development, 2022
PDF · Appendix · Replication

Working papers

Inefficient Policies in the Green Transition
Draft · Slides

International Coordination of Trade and Green Industrial Policies
Draft

An Informational Theory of Coalitional Lobbying
Draft · Slides

A Proof of Blackwell’s Theorem for Separable Metric State Spaces
PDF

Teaching

Math Camp 2026 at WashU

Lectures: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10
Problem sets: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10

Gov 2006: Formal Theory II

Teaching assistant, Spring 2021 and Spring 2022 · Prof. Peter Buisseret

Section slides: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13