Le prochain séminaire doctoral du CSO accueille Emily Huddart, directrice adjointe et professeur de sociologie, University of British Columbia.

Explaining affective climate and political polarization: Identity, ideology, and support for climate policy

La séance se tient de 10h à 12h à la fois en présentiel à Sciences Po, Salle K.008 et en distanciel sur zoom. Si vous souhaitez y assister, merci de contacter Samia Ben.

Résumé : 

In this talk, I examine the predictors and consequences of affective climate polarization (ACP) (warmth or dislike between supporters and opponents of decarbonization) and affective political polarization (APP) in the Canadian context. I use regression and dominance analyses on original, representative survey data to ask: (1) What factors explain variance in ACP? (2) What factors explain variance in APP? (3) To what extent do ACP and APP predict support for a carbon tax or perceptions about how decarbonization will affect jobs? Degree of support or opposition to decarbonization is the most important predictor of ACP. However, among supporters only, APP and the interaction between APP and liberalism are also related to ACP, suggesting that political outgroup dislike may drive climate-related animosity. For APP, degree of liberalism / conservatism and the interaction between ACP and attitudes toward decarbonization explain variance among both liberals and conservatives. Finally, ACP, attitudes toward decarbonization, and the interaction between them are related to support for a carbon tax and the belief that decarbonization will increase jobs. While political ideology was strongly associated with these two attitudes, the associations with APP and the interaction between APP and political ideology were negligible. These findings suggest political and climate-based identities are interwoven, but distinct.