Descripción del proyecto
Nuevos conocimientos sobre la reacción contraria al clima
En la actualidad, la teoría de la gobernanza del cambio climático es incapaz de explicar las reacciones repentinas y de gran impacto denominadas reacción contraria al clima. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos BACKLASH, que contribuye a este campo, tiene por objeto estudiar empíricamente las reacciones conflictivas a las medidas sobre política climática examinando casos tanto entre países industrializados avanzados como dentro de ellos. Su labor consistirá en un estudio de dos niveles de treinta y seis países de la OCDE y un estudio detallado de cuatro casos nacionales de políticas climáticas y las reacciones que estas provocan. Los resultados del proyecto aportarán información para el diseño de políticas climáticas ambiciosas y allanarán el camino a nuevos enfoques para el estudio interdisciplinar de las dinámicas política-sociedad a la hora de abordar problemas colectivos polémicos.
Objetivo
Growing calls for ambitious climate change action are challenging for governance because such action can trigger backlash. Why do societies sometimes accept costly public good action, but at other times push back suddenly and reject it? Abrupt and impactful reactions to climate policy actions are increasingly witnessed: Climate Backlash. Examples include the Yellow Vests in France, and acrimonious policy rollbacks in Canada and Australia. Climate change governance theory is, so far, unable to account for such dynamics, which undermines prospects for ambitious climate action. The challenge of BACKLASH is to empirically study, and ultimately to theorise, this type of contentious reaction to policy action. The aim of BACKLASH is to explain why, how, and under which conditions climate backlash emerges in advanced industrial democracies. BACKLASH will: 1) Identify the configurational drivers of climate backlash across varying national contexts, 2) Determine the mechanisms and processes by which climate backlash occurs within specific national contexts, 3) Establish whether and how climate backlash diffuses within and between countries, and 4) Explain the forms (i.e. institutionalised, non-institutionalised) and variation of climate backlash across contexts. To accomplish this, BACKLASH will conduct a two-level study of 36 OECD countries, and 4 in-depth national cases of climate policy, namely Australia, Canada, France, United Kingdom. BACKLASH is ground-breaking in: 1) pioneering an original interdisciplinary lens for studying climate backlash, 2) advancing an ambitious mixed-methods research design, and applying and testing new innovations in cross-case analysis, and 3) tackling a new combination of challenging empirical circumstances confronting the field of climate governance with profound implications for policy-society dynamics. This will open up new frontiers for the interdisciplinary study of backlash to policy in addressing contentious collective problems.
Ámbito científico
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
3584 CS Utrecht
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