Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6344951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Staffan Lundquist (0000-0002-6365-4306, Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 612-633 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00323217221132072 |
| OpenAlex | W4307922273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 68 |
Political parties are crucial in crafting effective national climate policies in democratic states. At the same time, there is a practical and academic debate of whether political parties matter for policy output. This article speaks to this debate by investigating the link between what parties say and what parties do with respect to environmental issues. More concretely, it analyzes whether there is a connection between the degree of environmentalism expressed in parties’ electoral manifestos and national environmental policy output. Theoretically, the article draws on existing research on program-to-policy linkages in general and for environmental issues specifically to argue that saliency of environmentalism in party manifestos shapes more stringent environmental policies. This argument is empirically tested by combining data on policy stringency with data on manifesto contents for 28 countries for the period 1990–2015. The findings corroborate the main hypothesis, which has implications for understanding the overall potential for political parties to structure national environmental politics. The article concludes by sketching broader implications for research on parties’ ability to shape national environmental policy across political systems, and across partisan ideologies
Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Economics · Environmental policy · Environmental politics · Environmental resource management · Environmentalism · Ideology · Manifesto · Policy studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Representation of environmental issues
Female parliamentarians and environmental sustainability
Populist Leadership and Environmental Policy Stringency
National aspirations but local realities? Regulatory stringency and policy drivers of local carbon peak in China
Analyzing the National Park policymaking process in China from a multiple streams perspective
No green country for centralist parties? How parties’ territorial positions influence the salience of environmental issues
From party programmes to climate policy
Is Partisan Conflict a Barrier to Environmental Policy
Unpacking the green box
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections
When is gender on party agendas? Manifestos and (De-)democratisation in Greece, Portugal, and Spain
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving
Issue Politics in Congress
Making and Breaking Governments
Elections, Parties, Democracy
Do Parties Make a Difference?
Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Political Parties and Hard Choices
Veto Players
Do government ideology and fragmentation matter for reducing CO2-emissions? Empirical evidence from OECD countries
When parties matter
More than Markets
Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change
Investigating Ministry Names for Comparative Policy Analysis
Are left-wing party strength and corporatism good for the environment? Evidence from panel analysis of air pollution in OECD countries
Who cares about the environment? An empirical analysis of the evolution of political parties’ environmental concern in European countries (1970–2008)
Labor‐Environmental Relations
An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy
New Party versus Old Left Realignments
What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience
Immigration policy and electoral competition in Western Europe
Economics, environmentalism and party alignments
Does Left/Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration
Electoral Cycles in Government Policy Making
Which Issues do Parties Emphasise? Salience Strategies and Party Organisation in Multiparty Systems
Partisan politics, welfare states, and environmental policy outputs in the OECD countries, 1975–2005
Avoidance and Engagement
Do Party Manifestos Matter in Policy-Making? Capacities, Incentives and Outcomes of Electoral Programmes in France
Testing the ‘Party Matters' Thesis
Toward a Comparative Measure of Climate Policy Output
Political parties and climate policy
Reassessing the gap-hypothesis
Giving content to new politics
Party Politicization Of The Environment In Britain
Coalition Prospects and Policy Change
Choosing Electoral Systems
Who gets what in coalition governments? Predictors of portfolio allocation in parliamentary democracies
The programme to policy linkage
Who sets the agenda and who responds to it in the Danish parliament? A new model of issue competition and agenda‐setting
Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970–2000
Domestic and International Influences on Green Taxation
Estimating Policy Positions from Political Texts
The Mass Public and Macroeconomic Performance
Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
The Fulfillment of Parties’ Election Pledges
Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies
Decision Making in Political Systems
What Are Elections For? Conferring the Median Mandate
Party Reputations and Policy Priorities
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
What parties are and what parties do
Greening the mainstream
Do parties matter for international environmental cooperation? An analysis of environmental treaty participation by advanced industrialised democracies
Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies
Greener governments
Drivers of political parties' climate policy preferences
It's not easy being green
Electoral volatility
Partisanship, Ministers, and Biotechnology Policy
The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American Public's Views of Global Warming, 2001-2010
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |