CET Lunch: Political Parties and Climate Change: Building the PARTYCLIM dataset

Our speaker will attend in person. Participants can sign up and tune in via stream, or turn up at CET where lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.

Political parties lie at the heart of climate change politics, yet their behaviour and influence are woefully understudied, especially in a comparative perspective. The goal of the PARTYCLIM project is to address the lack of systematic and comparative data on political parties’ climate change positions and provide the most comprehensive analysis of the role of political parties in climate politics to date. A key objective of the project is to create a dataset of parties' climate policy preferences, covering 20 industrialised countries across two decades of climate politics. In this seminar, we present and elicit feedback on our plans and coding scheme for building the PARTYCLIM dataset.

About the speaker

Fay Farstad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. Her research interests cover comparative environmental and climate politics and policy, also at the European Union level. She is the Principal Investigator of a Researcher Project for Young Talents funded by the Norwegian Research Council called “Political Parties and Climate Change: Positions, Polarisation and Policy Relevance (PARTYCLIM)”.