Workshop: Elections and Climate Change (In-Person Registration)

Outline

Recent months have witnessed several high-profile elections including in India, the US, the UK, Netherlands, France, the EU, Finland, Portugal and South Korea. In fact, 2024 has been called the year of elections with 1.5 billion people across the world estimated to have voted in some kind of poll.

Though political attention to climate change waxes and wanes, in recent years it has often played a prominent role in elections around the world, and fraught party competition on the issue has become common in many political systems.

Recent election results have also had pivotal impacts upon climate change policy, both at the domestic and international level.

In this context, the Political Studies Association (PSA) Environment Group and the PSA Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Group (EPOP) are co-organising a one-day academic workshop on elections and climate change.

This event is sponsored by the Environmental Politics journal.

This event has been kindly supported by EPOP's Anthony King Award.

Venue: 1.11 Old Council Chamber, University of Bristol, Queens Road, BS8 1SA, Clifton Campus.

Room details and map.

In-Person Attendance

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Schedule

09:30-09:55 - Coffee and Registration

09:55-10:00 - Introduction

10:00-11:30 - Panel 1: Elections Around the World

Chair: Dr Sophia Hatzisavvidou (University of Bath)

Speakers:

Dr Erick Lachapelle (University of Montreal) - 'Canadian Elections and the Concept of a "Climate Election"'

Dr Conor Little (University of Limerick) - 'The environment, climate change and voting behaviour in Ireland'

Dr Juneseo Hwang (Universität Hamburg) -'The 2024 South Korean Election and Climate Change'

Aidan Miao (UCL) - 'The Electoral Effects of the Inflation Reduction Act in the 2024 US Election'

Marthe Walgrave (University of Antwerp) [& Van Aelst, P.] - 'Framing Climate Change: A Comparative Analysis of European Party Manifestos at the 2024 European Elections'

11:30-11:45 - Coffee Break

11:45-13.00 - Panel 2: Climate Change and Political Parties

Chair: Professor Karen Henwood (Cardiff University)

Speakers:

Professor Neil Carter (University of York) [& Farstad, F.M., Cisquella, J.T., Little, C. , Carter, N., Mildenberger, M., Tranter, B. and Quinn, O.] - 'The Party Politics of Climate Change: Introducing the PARTYCLIM Dataset to explain variation in climate change positions and competition across 20 industrialised countries, 2002-2022'

Professor Robert Ladrech (University of Keele) - 'European Centre-left Parties and the Challenge of Climate Change'

Dr Ruben Ruiz Rufino (King's College London) [& de la Cuesta. F.] - 'Climate Change, Economic Losers and Political Behaviour'

Dr Karolin Soontjens (University of Antwerp) - 'Comparing Citizen and Elite Attitudes to Climate Change'

13.00-13.45 - Lunch

13.45-15.15 - Panel 3: Public Opinion on Climate Change

Chair: Dr Christina Demski (University of Bath & CAST)

Speakers:

Dr Charlotte Bez (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) [& Bosetti, V., Colantone, I. & Zanardi, M.] -'Exposure to International Trade and Green Voting'

Theodore Tallent (Sciences Po) [& Jan, M. & Sattelmayer, L.] - 'More than Symbols: The Effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support'

Professor Nick Vivyan (University of Durham) & Professor Gidon Cohen (University of Durham) - 'Political Polarisation of Climate and Environmental Attitudes in Britain'

Malo Jan (Sciences Po) - 'The Political Costs and Benefits of Climate Policy Proposals'

Sienna Everett (University of Southampton) - ‘Parenthood and Climate Change Attitudes'

15.15-15.30 - Coffee Break

15.30-16.30 - Panel 4 - Reasons to be Cheerful? Prospects for Climate Change Policy after the Year of Elections

Chair: Professor Jo House (University of Bristol)

Speakers:

Dr Niall McLoughlin (Climate Barometer)

Ed Matthew (E3G)

Elisabetta Cornago (Centre for European Reform)

Dr Katharina Richter (University of Bristol)

16.30-17.15 - Drinks Reception

Note: [ ] denotes people who are co-authors of the papers being presented but are not expected to take part in the workshop.

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