DIGSSCORE Seminar: Political Parties and Climate Change: Positions, Polarisation and Policy Relevance

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Fay Farstad, Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, along with Matto Mildenberger, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Bruce Tranter, Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and Håkon Sælen, Senior Researcher at CICERO, will present for us today. Their presentation is titled "Political Parties and Climate Change: Positions, Polarisation and Policy Relevance".
The event is in a hybrid format, you are welcome to join us for lunch from the Corner room at DIGSSCORE. Food is provided on a first-come first-served basis. Zoom link for digital attendance.
Abstract:
Political parties lie at the heart of climate change politics, yet their strategies and influence are woefully understudied, especially in a comparative perspective. The goal of the PARTYCLIM project (funded by the Norwegian Research Council) 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.
Creating a data set of parties' climate policy preferences across 20 industrialised countries over the last two decades, the PARTYCLIM project will attempt to characterise and explain parties’ climate policy preferences and competition on climate change, as well as exploring the relevance of political parties and party competition for countries' climate policy ambition.
Large-N quantitative and medium-N methods will be combined with intensive case study analysis of Australia, Norway, the UK and the US. We will also design and deliver public opinion surveys to analyse the levels and drivers of concern for- and attitudes to climate change in the four country case studies, allowing us to explore the extent to which party positions and competition on climate change can be explained by societal factors such as public opinion.
In this DIGSSCORE seminar, Fay and her co-investigators will present the newly started project and ideas for how to shape the public opinion surveys.