Clegg, Liam Simon orcid.org/0000-0002-0773-5988 and Galindo Gutierrez, Julio (2023) Green electoral performance and national climate change commitment:The conditional effect of EU membership. Party Politics. ISSN 1354-0688
Abstract
Does Green party electoral success lead to increased climate change commitment, and if so how? Drawing on a new OECD database on climate change outlays, we probe indirect influence from Green electoral success as mediated by inter-party competition, and direct mechanisms of influence from elected Green representatives. Our headline finding is that EU membership functions as a contextual catalyst for inter-party competition, with EU governing parties responding to Greens’ strong electoral performance by increasing climate change outlays to appeal to environmentally motivated voters. We also find evidence that, both across the OECD cohort and the EU sub-grouping, Green coalition presence is associated with increase climate spending over a political cycle. While direct Green influence through coalition presence is widespread, indirect influence mediated by inter-party competition is conditional on EU membership. Findings fit with literature highlighting systematic difference between EU members’ climate performance, and that of other advanced-industrialised states.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2023 10:30 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:37 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688231216282 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/13540688231216282 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205032 |
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