Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000665
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000495
Patrick J. Egan, Megan Mullin
The rise of climate change on the global political agenda coincided with the growth of partisan polarization in US politics and, in many ways, their trajectories mirror one another. When the climate crisis first began to attract political attention 30 years ago, Republicans and Democrats responded with similar levels of interest and concern. Today, partisan division overwhelms all other aspects of climate-change politics and environmental politics more broadly (Egan, Konisky, and Mullin 2022; Egan and Mullin 2017).
气候变化在全球政治议程上的崛起,与美国政治中党派分化的加剧不谋而合,在许多方面,它们的轨迹是相互映照的。30年前,当气候危机首次引起政治关注时,共和党人和民主党人的反应是同样的兴趣和担忧。今天,党派分歧压倒了气候变化政治和环境政治的所有其他方面(Egan, Konisky, and Mullin, 2022;Egan and Mullin 2017)。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000434
David M. Konisky
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change requires the adoption of costly policies with often uncertain efficacy and distributional consequences. Because these emissions occur across sectors of the economy—electricity, transportation, and agriculture—and the built environment, and they require action at all levels of government—global, national, regional, and local—there is no single “silver-bullet” solution.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1017/s104909652300032x
Joshua W. Busby
A robust literature on climate change and security developed in the 2010s. Much of the literature attempts to chart how climate change could contribute directly or indirectly to conflict and instability through impacts on agriculture, migration, and disasters (Busby 2018; Koubi 2019; Theisen 2017).1 The methodological challenge is that climate change is an emergent problem, wherein the security consequences largely have yet to occur. However, the field’s methods and expertise are primarily explanatory of past patterns. For scholars who want to make claims about future security risks, Gledistch (1998, 394) warned of potentially slipping into prophecy. If scholars want to write about climate change and retain academic rigor, what are they to do? This article reviews the challenges for scholars in this space and identifies potential research strategies that might be pursued going forward.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000562
Jennifer Hadden, A. Prakash
Climate change is fundamentally a political problem; it is not merely a technical or economic challenge but rather an arena for sharp conflicts over the distribution of gains and losses and the associated ethical challenges. However, as Keohane (2015), Javeline (2014), and Green and Hale (2017) noted in PS: Political Science & Politics and Perspectives on Politics, research on climate change has not been traditionally central to mainstream political science. Field journals including Global Environmental Politics and Environmental Politics have made important contributions in this regard, and leading university presses have published important books on climate issues. However, the neglect of climate politics by mainstream journals is surprising—although we note the recent Perspective on Politics symposium on Green Political Science—because political scientists have devoted considerable attention to studying environmental politics at the community (Ostrom 1990), national (Kelemen and Vogel 2010), and international (Young 1994) levels. Indeed, there is robust literature on the management of common pool resources, national styles of environmental regulation, and environmental social movements, as well as global environmental regimes. Yet, the topic of climate change—an important subject in the study of environmental politics—too often has been neglected by mainstream political science.
气候变化从根本上说是一个政治问题;它不仅是一个技术或经济挑战,而且是一个关于得失分配和相关道德挑战的尖锐冲突的舞台。然而,正如Keohane (2015), Javeline(2014)和Green and Hale(2017)在PS:政治学与政治学和政治视角中指出的那样,对气候变化的研究传统上并不是主流政治学的核心。包括《全球环境政治》和《环境政治》在内的领域期刊在这方面做出了重要贡献,领先的大学出版社出版了关于气候问题的重要书籍。然而,主流期刊对气候政治的忽视令人惊讶——尽管我们注意到最近关于绿色政治学的政治观点研讨会——因为政治科学家已经在社区(Ostrom 1990)、国家(Kelemen and Vogel 2010)和国际(Young 1994)层面上投入了相当多的注意力来研究环境政治。事实上,在公共资源管理、国家风格的环境监管、环境社会运动以及全球环境制度方面,有大量的文献。然而,气候变化这一环境政治研究中的重要课题却经常被主流政治学所忽视。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000380
Kathryn Sikkink
To confront the climate crisis, we need political change involving a dramatic shift in domestic and transnational norms. Norm models should be recognized as one of the theoretical tools within the panoply of approaches to examine and address climate change. The most promising norm campaigns underway are those that target fossil fuel companies and government policies that support them (e.g., subsidies).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000550
Gary M. Segura
The well-understood gap between “mainstream” environmental organizations and Americans from minority populations is rooted in two phenomena. First, in the mid-1990s, hostility expressed toward immigrants and immigration by the Sierra Club (among other groups) drove a wedge between environmentalism and Latinos, as 87% of all Latinos are within two generations of the immigration experience. Second, whereas larger environmental groups focused on pollution and other forms of environmental degradation as well as conservation of natural and wild spaces, minority Americans showed less engagement in these issues and were affected more directly by air and water pollution and its consequences—phenomena that more directly affect communities of color. “Environmental justice” movements and organizations emerged to fill the gap left by the somewhat diminished focus of large “mainstream” groups on minority populations.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000318
Jessica F. Green
Although a subset of political scientists has been studying climate change for decades, the mainstream of the discipline lags behind. Journals such as Global Environmental Politics and even Nature and Science have long published political science research on climate, yet major disciplinary journals tend to marginalize climate and environmental politics more broadly (Green and Hale 2017). This trend has been changing slowly (as evidenced by this symposium), but mainstream political science still has much catching up to do.
尽管一小部分政治科学家研究气候变化已经有几十年了,但这一学科的主流却落后了。《全球环境政治》甚至《自然与科学》等期刊长期以来都发表了关于气候的政治学研究,但主要学科期刊往往更广泛地将气候和环境政治边缘化(Green and Hale 2017)。这一趋势一直在缓慢变化(正如本次研讨会所证明的那样),但主流政治学仍有很多工作要做。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000586
Mathew Y. H. Wong, Ying-ho Kwong
During the COVID-19 pandemic, ad hoc direct relief payments were used extensively as a means of economic stimulation and individual compensation. Current studies are focusing on the economic impact of these policies, but they seldom consider how these payments affect individual beliefs and attitudes. This study used a survey with quasi-experimental elements to examine how these payments affected tertiary students in Hong Kong by focusing primarily on a cohort including both eligible and noneligible students. Whereas satisfaction with the economy and government and support for democracy were not affected, nonrecipients assigned greater importance to meritocratic factors in improving life outcomes. The findings of this study shed light on how governments inadvertently may be affecting the outlook of young adults with transfers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1017/s1049096523000598
S. Kettell
Political scientists involved in the study of religion have expressed concerns that religious themes have yet to be fully integrated into the mainstream of the discipline. According to a study of articles published in leading political science journals during the first decade of the twenty-first century, papers engaging with religion were relatively few in number and highly concentrated in only a few thematic and disciplinary areas. This article presents an updated analysis of the extent to which political science has engaged with the topic of religion by examining journal outputs for the period 2011–2020. The study finds no significant change in the patterns identified by the earlier research. Despite an overall increase in the quantity of political science articles on the subject of religion, the overall proportion has been relatively static, and the thematic and disciplinary focus of outputs remains narrow.
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