Party politics and the effectiveness of local climate change policy frameworks: Green influence from the sidelines

Liam Simon Clegg

doi:10.1080/03003930.2023.2292662

Party politics and the effectiveness of local climate change policy frameworks: Green influence from the sidelines

Liam Simon Clegg

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Abstract

Are national-level party political drivers of climate change performance reproduced locally? Here, I explore whether Greens’ ability to influence climate commitment nationally via legislative presence and coalition partnership is translated into English local government, using Climate Emergency gradings of local authority policy frameworks as the focus of comparative analysis. Scholarship on English local authority policy-making and performance suggests that, on balance, we should expect to see the Green legislative presence and governing coalition effects translate to this level of government. While the finding of a positive Green legislative presence effect adds weight to the characterisation of local climate governance in England as a relatively collaborative process, the null finding on the coalition effect raises questions over the ability of junior coalition partners to realise preferences rapidly. Given the importance of sub-national politics to successful climate change transformation, it is vital that the factors associated with strengthened commitment be further explored.

Original language	English
Number of pages	28
Journal	Local government studies
Early online date	9 Dec 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2292662
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 9 Dec 2023

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