Bourdieu, environmental NGOs, and Australian climate politics

McDonald, Matt

doi:10.1080/09644016.2016.1196968

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“…This is especially true in Australia, which has experienced considerable political conflict over climate change in recent years. The polarized nature of Australian climate change politics has also hampered most efforts to enact any serious climate policies, which, for example, is evident in the failure to implement an emissions trading system (Fielding et al., 2012; McDonald, 2016; Pearse, 2016; Tranter, 2013). In New Zealand, political conflicts over climate change mitigation are affected considerably by its unique emissions profile, with most emissions coming from agriculture and forestry.…”

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The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

Linde

2020

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Previous research shows that public perceptions of climate change risk are strongly related to the individual willingness to support climate mitigation and adaptation policy. In this article, I investigate how public perceptions of climate change risk are affected by communications from political parties and the degree of polarization among them. Specifically, using survey data from Sweden, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, I study the relationship between party source cues, perceived polarization, and public perceptions of climate change risk. The results reveal a positive relationship between party cues and perceptions of climate change risk, indicating that individuals adjust their risk perceptions to align with their party preference. Furthermore, a negative relationship between perceived polarization and individual risk perceptions is also discovered, showing that individuals tend to be less concerned with climate change the more polarization they perceive. However, the effect of perceived polarization is found to be limited to more abstract perceptions of risk, while being unrelated to perceptions of concrete risks. Even with some contextual variance, the results generally hold up well across the four countries.

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The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

Linde

2020

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“…In the latter, despite a certain degree of cross-partisan agreement on the need for climate policies, this polarization is manifested in political indecisiveness surrounding attempts to implement a New Zealand emission trading scheme (Bullock, 2012;Harker, Taylor, & Knight-Lenihan, 2017). In Australia, climate politics have become both more politicized and more polarized over time (Fielding, Head, Laffan, Western, & Hoegh-Guldberg, 2012;McDonald, 2016;Pearse, 2016;Tranter, 2013), causing a considerable degree of volatility in climate change politics and failed attempts to implement a carbon pricing policy (Crowley, 2017;McDonald, 2016) (Figure 3).…”

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The significance of political culture, economic context and instrument type for climate policy support: a cross-national study

2018

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While many countries have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the choice of national climate policy measures demonstrates widespread variation. Although system of government, path-dependency and economic entanglements can explain a certain amount of variation in policy choice, research also points specifically towards the highly politicized nature of climate policy instruments and their sensitivity to public support as explanatory factors for cross-national differences. Previous studies hypothesize that various country-specific contextual factors determine both general preferences for environmental protection and the public's preferences for different types of policy instruments. One suggestion is that countries' prevailing political cultures have significant consequences for such public support. Another supposition is that, since countries differ in their economic dependency on climate detrimental industry such as fossil fuel production, this should be a significant factor determining both public attitudes and subsequent political decisions. This paper applies unique, original data from four countries with significant variation in (i) political-cultural contexts (Sweden and Norway vs New Zealand and Australia and (ii) economic dependency (Norway and Australia vs Sweden and New Zealand) to analyze how, and to what extent, these two contextual variables interact with, and moderate, the effect of individual-level factors on support for climate policy measures in the four countries. Furthermore, the paper explores variations in support for different types of CO 2 taxes (directed towards individual consumers, industry, and fossil-fuel producers) in the four countries. Key policy insights. Across contexts, public policy support is lower for taxes directed towards private consumption than for taxes directed towards industry, and the strongest for CO 2 taxes on fossil fuel producing industry.. Political culture and economic context influence the effect of individual-level factors on policy support.. In a context of high economic dependency on the fossil-fuel industry, people are less likely to support the introduction of CO 2 taxes.. The effect of left-right ideology on policy support is sensitive to political-cultural context.

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“…At the time of Kyoto negotiations, Australia’s most influential NGOs included domestic organizations, such as the Australian Conservation Foundation, and domestic branches of international groups, such as the World Wild Fund (WWF), The Wilderness Society, and Greenpeace (McDonald, 2016). Since the mid-1980s, these NGOs were plugged into the international environmental movement through participation in international conferences, direct collaboration, and funding streams (Sampford and Round, 2001; Yalan, 2007).…”

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Global civil society and the test of Kyoto: A theoretical extension

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Zaloznaya

2018

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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What determines how successful global civil society is in promoting international governance norms within nation-states? Studies attribute the varied effectiveness of civil action to the capacity of non-governmental groups and organizations, the nature of global regimes that generate such norms, domestic political landscapes, or combinations of these factors. Yet, empirical cases, analyzed in this article, suggest that global civil society may lose or gain in domestic effectiveness even when these determinants remain stable. Using primary and secondary data on Kyoto Protocol negotiations in Japan, Canada, and Australia, we argue that changes in the Kyoto stances of these three countries between 2005 and 2012 stemmed from the realignment of domestic political actors engaged in the contestation of the protocol alongside civil society. Our data reveal that exogenous natural and political events led to shifts in the positions of local political elites, media, and the energy industry. As a result, the pro-Kyoto coalition, headed by global civil society, either lost or gained in bargaining power vis-à-vis the counter-coalition. We, therefore, theorize realignment as a mechanism that connects exogenous events to the changing effectiveness of global civil society. Theoretically, our study emphasizes the importance of embedding civil action into its concrete socio-historical contexts and advocates for a process-oriented study of agentic social change.

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Bourdieu, environmental NGOs, and Australian climate politics

Cited by 32 publications

References 27 publications

The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

The significance of political culture, economic context and instrument type for climate policy support: a cross-national study

Global civil society and the test of Kyoto: A theoretical extension

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