Mini-Conference on Politics in Post-industrial Societies II: Climate Scepticism and Changing Cleavages of Climate Politics

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Mini-Conference on Politics in Post-industrial Societies

Session Description

The second panel investigates how the rising salience of climate change and climate scepticism redefine party politics and voter affinities, identifying the central divides that underpin increased contestation around this issue. Bayer and Genovese and Arndt and Halikiopoulou examine how the geographic distribution of the costs and benefits of climate policies and regional identities contribute to a growing centre-periphery cleavage in climate politics and policy preferences. Green and Bolet in turn examine whether and how right-wing populist parties benefit from politicizing climate change by attaching it to socio-cultural and/or economic frames. Finally, Finnegan and Meckling deepen understanding of how corporate ownership structures business preferences for climate policies, and how these preferences help explain their opposition against long-term policies to address climate change.

Sub Unit

• Division 11: Comparative Politics

Chair

• Fergus Green University College London

Discussants

• Federica Genovese University of Oxford

• Fergus Green University College London

Individual Presentations

• Climate Policy Costs, Regional Identity, Backlash to International Cooperation - Patrick Bayer, University of Glasgow; Federica Genovese, University of Oxford

• Local Opposition to Environmental Protectionism and Voting Patterns in Europe - Christoph Arndt, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University; Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of York

• Corporate Ownership, Short-Termism, and Climate Policy Preferences - Jared J Finnegan, University College London; Jonas Meckling, University of California, Berkeley; Jared J Finnegan, University College London

• Do Right-Wing Populist Messages Affect Public Support for Climate Policy? - Fergus Green, University College London; Diane Bolet, University of Zurich