Co-sponsored by Division 14: Comparative Politics of Superior Industrial Democracies
In-Individual Full Paper Panel
Individuals:
- (Chair) Pepper D. Culpepper, College of Oxford
- (Discussant) Leah Stokes, UCSB
Session Description:
Local weather change is the existential problem of this century. How nations meet it’s a product of politics, which responds to each structural financial roots and politically salient occasions that focus public consideration on the results of local weather change. Consistent with the theme of this yr’s APSA convention, which invitations us to reimagine politics within the face of the urgent crises of immediately, the papers on this panel represent a dialog in regards to the various methods through which political polarization and the economic system refract particular person attitudes and political social gathering methods for addressing local weather change.
Two of the papers look at the consequences of local weather change occasions on politics. The paper by Culpepper, Lee, and Shandler investigates the consequences of a scandal surrounding the oil large Exxon and local weather change attitudes. In France, Germany, and Nice Britain, they discover that publicity to details about the scandal will increase each the salience of and the general public demand for local weather change insurance policies. In the US, Republicans react in another way than Democrats to the scandal, resulting in no internet impact. The paper by Fasolin and Valentim examines the impact of local weather change occasions – floods – on the choice of individuals to enter native politics in Brazil. They discover that local weather change occasions scale back each the age and schooling stage of mayoral candidates, thereby rising the involvement of underrepresented actors in politics.
The subsequent two papers on the panel take a look at how the construction of the labor market influences local weather change preferences, each on the particular person and combination ranges. The paper by Heddesheimer, Hilbig, and Voeten explores the best way {that a} far-right social gathering, the German AfD, exploited its opposition to bold local weather change insurance policies to draw assist. Utilizing a difference-in-differences design, they present AfD assist elevated in counties with extra polluting jobs after this platform change. A panel survey additional demonstrates that people in these occupations additionally shifted in the direction of the AfD. The paper by Stutzmann makes use of unique knowledge from Germany to discover the consequences of employment within the data economic system – each in jobs related to the data economic system and the contextual results of residing in native economies dominated by the data economic system – on preferences for local weather change mitigation.
The ultimate paper on the panel, by Bergquist, Franzblau, and Mildenberger, pans out from particular person instances to map the patterns of public polarization on local weather change throughout the globe. The paper attracts an unique dataset of over 2 million survey responses from 97 surveys carried out between 1998 and 2023, overlaying greater than 100 nations.
