Political Economy of Climate Change

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Climate change is an urgent global threat, with its impacts already being felt in unprecedented heat waves, floods, and wildfires. In response, when can political parties strengthen environmental policy? How will firms react to not only climate policy but also damages from a changing climate? And as smaller, poorer states increasingly experience the worst impacts of global warming, will they be able to make their voices heard on climate issues in international organizations? Leveraging interviews, observational data, and formal models, the four papers on this panel explore these questions, with a focus on the distributive stakes involved and the strategic setting.

Sub Unit

• Division 19: International Security 

Individual Presentations

• When Do Firm Preferences Change? Evidence from Global Warming - Alexander Foster Gazmararian, University of Michigan; Helen V. Milner, Princeton University

• The Politics of Participation in the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero - Amanda Kennard, Stanford University

• Are IOs Democratic? The Politics of Preference Aggregation in Global Governance - Sabrina Beth Arias, Lehigh University; Richard Clark, University of Notre Dame; Ayse Kaya, Swarthmore College

• When Are Parties Good for the Environment? - Aleksandra Conevska, Harvard University; Can Mutlu, Harvard University

Chair

• Jeff Colgan Brown University

Discussant

• Kenneth F. Scheve University of Notre Dame