Party competition on climate policy: The roles of interest groups, ideology and challenger parties in the UK and Ireland

TY - JOUR

T1 - Party competition on climate policy

T2 - The roles of interest groups, ideology and challenger parties in the UK and Ireland

AU - Carter, Neil Thomas

AU - Little, Conor

PY - 2021/1/1

Y1 - 2021/1/1

N2 - This study shows how interest group-party relations, parties’ cross-cutting policy preferences, and competition with challenger parties shape the structure of issue competition on climate policy. It uses the ‘most similar’ cases of the UK and Ireland to show how differences in party systems influence the structure of issue competition. Theoretically, the study takes up the challenge of integrating salience and position in the conceptualisation of climate policy preferences. Empirically, it provides new evidence on factors influencing climate policy preferences and the party politics of climate change, focusing on interest groups, party ideology, and challenger parties. Further, it identifies similarities between the general literature on interest group influence on party preferences and the literature on interest groups in climate politics, and seeks to make connections between them.

AB - This study shows how interest group-party relations, parties’ cross-cutting policy preferences, and competition with challenger parties shape the structure of issue competition on climate policy. It uses the ‘most similar’ cases of the UK and Ireland to show how differences in party systems influence the structure of issue competition. Theoretically, the study takes up the challenge of integrating salience and position in the conceptualisation of climate policy preferences. Empirically, it provides new evidence on factors influencing climate policy preferences and the party politics of climate change, focusing on interest groups, party ideology, and challenger parties. Further, it identifies similarities between the general literature on interest group influence on party preferences and the literature on interest groups in climate politics, and seeks to make connections between them.

KW - political parties, party competition, climate change, salience, polarisation, interest groups

U2 - 10.1177/0192512120972582

DO - 10.1177/0192512120972582

M3 - Article

SN - 0192-5121

VL - 42

JO - International Political Science Review

JF - International Political Science Review

IS - 1

M1 - 0192512120972582

ER -