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- Title
Party Politicisation and the Formative Phase of Environmental Policy-Making in Multi-level Systems: Electoral Discourse in UK Meso-elections 1998-2011.
- Authors
Chaney, Paul
- Abstract
Despite sustained public demand for parties to act, the environment has been subject to limited issue salience in UK state-wide elections. This article uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore party politicisation of the environment in regional elections 1998-2011. Contrary to earlier suggestions, the present findings indicate that multi-level systems may facilitate increasing environmental issue salience at the meso level. In part this is a function of nationalist parties' prioritisation of the environment. Overall, electoral discourse is shown to have a key formative role in driving policy divergence owing to inter-polity and inter/intra-party contrasts in salience and framing. From a normative perspective this suggests that the pluralising effect of (quasi-)federalism has the potential to foster greater responsiveness in party programmes through enhanced choice for the environmental issue public. This is an outcome of the expansion of electoral politics following state decentralisation and associated party competition to advance distinctive proposals over rivals.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; DECISION making in environmental policy; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; PUBLIC opinion on environmental policy; ENVIRONMENTAL policy &; politics; BRITISH history; ELECTIONS; POLITICAL platforms; POLITICAL parties; DECENTRALIZATION in government; BRITISH politics &; government, 1997-2007; BRITISH politics &; government, 2007-
- Publication
Political Studies, 2014, Vol 62, Issue 2, p252
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9248.12028