Climate change and the welfare state? Exploring Australian attitudes to climate and social policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2399298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Spies-Butcher (0000-0002-0427-5082, Macquarie University, Sydney, corresponding author), Adam Stebbing (0000-0003-3476-2436, Macquarie University, Sydney) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 741-758 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1440783315584209 |
| OpenAlex | W2259827869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 36 |
Despite growing evidence of significant impacts from human-induced climate change, policy responses have been slow. Understanding this policy inertia has led to competing explanations, which either point to the need to build a consensual politics separated from economic partisanship, or which encourage solidarities between environmental and social movements and issues. This article analyses a recent successful mobilisation, leading to the passage of the Clean Energy Act in Australia, to explore the relationship between attitudes to environmental and social protection, particularly among the core constituency in favour of stronger climate action. Using social survey data from the Australian Election Study, the article finds evidence of independent associations between prioritising environmental concerns and support for welfare state expansion, and a realignment of materialist and post-materialist values. This we argue is consistent with Polanyian analysis that posits a link between social and environmental causes based on resistance to commodification
Climate change · Commodification · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Environmental sociology · Materialism · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Social policy · Social science · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2027 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |