Climate Change, Wind Energy, and the Populist Radical Right

• In Event: Parties, Populism, and Polarization

Brief Overview

This paper combines fine-grained, local-level election data with geolocated wind turbine data from several European countries to show how the populist radical right benefits from capitalizing on strong local opposition against wind energy.

Authors

• Alexander Held, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

• Pauliina Patana, Cornell University