Reacting to the politicization of trade policy

Dür, Andreas; Hamilton, Scott Michael; De Bièvre, Dirk

doi:10.1080/13501763.2023.2258157

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“…Finally, in looking at depoliticization, my focus was on actor reactions to ESG politicization which sought the former. These reactions were also sourced from the media and related materials mentioned above which, building on the conceptual framework for reactions by Dür et al (2024), I allocated to the categories of "confronting", "separating", and "dodging".…”

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“…That section on reactions to ESG politicization draws on recent scholarship in the politicization literature by Dür et al (2024) which has established a useful conceptual framework for reactions. Their work also usefully discusses the terminology deployed in much of the literature.…”

Section: The Politicization Literaturementioning

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“…This section explores actor reactions to ESG politicization which have advocated depoliticization. Adapting Dür et al (2024), these reactions can be characterized as "confronting", "separating", and "dodging". "Confronting" is often the province of practitioners and academics like Crowley and Eccles (2023) -a Republican attorney and business professor -who are dismayed at the politicization of ESG and who want it to become depoliticized and hence boring and unnoticed again.…”

Section: Depoliticizing Reactions To Esgmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The final aim is to analyze reactions to the politicization of ESG by actors seeking to depoliticize it. Here I draw on recent European work on reaction to politicization (Dür et al, 2024) and its language of "confronting" and "dodging".…”

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Climate change and the politicization of ESG in the US

Hilson

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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ESG, or environmental, social, and governance, is seen by some as an instrument to tackle climate change, and by others as a tool to allow investors to assess climate change risks and opportunities. It has been widely politicized in the US, where Republican critics have characterized it as an attempt by the liberal financial elite to impose a leftist decarbonizing mission on the US economy through an investment risk back door. The current paper explores the way in which ESG has become a, perhaps unlikely, object of politicization by the political right. In doing so, it analyses the meaning of politicization in an ESG context and the various forms it has taken, both discursive and substantive. The paper also seeks to explain why it is that ESG politicization has occurred at particular junctures and draws on political opportunity theory from social movement studies to account for this. It further examines various reactions to the politicization of ESG that have sought to depoliticize it.

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