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Toward Comprehensive Climate Action: Assessing Mitigation Approaches Across Canadian Municipalities
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Local governments are widely regarded as key leaders in the global response to climate change. Understanding if and how municipalities commit to climate mitigation is crucial for assessing their contribution to global emission‐reduction goals and identifying barriers to effective climate transitions.
Aryana Soliz +7 more
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Effects of Social Media Use on Political Polarization
, 2020 21st century political science has seen a growing field of research focused around the idea of political polarization. While authors like Fiorina and Abramowitz have been debating the existence of such polarization, the literature has come to understand ...
Kansco, Jacob Anthony
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of the democratic and social‐ecological crises, deliberative minipublics such as citizens' assemblies are increasingly implemented and discussed by scholars as a means for sound decision‐making and to enhance public support for sustainability transformations.
Lea Findeis, Nicolas Jager
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Political polarization based on moralized attitudes
Journal of Human Environmental StudiesNumerous studies have been conducted over the past few decades to understand how social and political values contribute to political polarization.
Iori Kasahara, Minoru Karasawa
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Political Polarization and Economic Growth
SSRN Electronic JournalAbstract This study examines the effect of political polarization, measured by the dispersion of self-reported political ideologies, on economic growth. Using a panel of 75 countries from 1990 to 2019, we find that political polarization has a negative effect on economic growth through its effect on private investment, human capital investment,
Youngho Kang +2 more
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It’s All About Context: Political Polarization on Twitter and Electoral Systems [PDF]
, 2019 The present paper explores the issue of political polarization on social media. It addresses two main questions: 1) Whether the intensity of political partisanship on SNS varies significantly in different countries depending on the electoral rules; 2 ...
Urman, Aleksandra
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, environmental policy has shifted toward ecosystem protection and biodiversity conservation, a development often described as an ecological turn. This article argues that in practice this turn has taken the form of an ecological “U‐turn,” as environmental ambitions are subordinated to production‐oriented objectives.
Gisle Andersen +2 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates emerging soil carbon markets and seeks to identify the groups of actors and power relations that constitute their structure and function. Voluntary soil carbon markets (VSCMs) are emerging globally as a key mechanism for generating carbon removals as part of climate mitigation efforts.
Philippa Simmonds +2 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate assemblies are a novel method of public consultation in which quasi randomly selected citizens are brought together to learn about climate change, discuss with their fellow citizens, and recommend solutions to the commissioning body.
Patricia Mockler +2 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2019 This study is concerned with the role of persistent online incivility in the dynamics of public opinion polarization. It examines how cyberbalkanization, contentiousness of the political context, online incivility, and opinion polarization at the ...
Francis L.F. Lee +2 more
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