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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 2d

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

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Climate Outreach @climateoutreach.bsky.social · 2d

📢 This is a threat we won’t accept: abolishing the Climate Change Act (CCA) would harm our natural world, damage a thriving net zero economy, reverse significant progress, and be out of step with public and political opinion.

We’ve written an open letter to Badenoch to express our profound concern.

Climate Outreach are one of many major climate and nature organisations to express our grave and collective concern at Badenoch's threat to scrap the Climate Change Act.

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 6d

UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is evident among the public in Britain, Canada, Chile, and Germany.

John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 6d

New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com

UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023.

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Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions

Communications Earth & Environment - UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is...

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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 6d

A new UEA study has found that UK Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public overestimated the time left to meet a critical deadline for limiting global warming. 

Read more 👉 bit.ly/3KAs1y2

#UKParliament #MPs #ClimateChange
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 6d

Bit of an awkward coincidence that our paper comes out on the day Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap the UK Climate Change Act, but perhaps provides also a bit of an explanation:

Many UK politicians, and Tories especially, still don't fully grasp the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions!
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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 6d

New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com

UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023.

@tyndallcentre.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social
@climateuea.bsky.social

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Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions

Communications Earth & Environment - UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is...

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PSA German Politics Specialist Group @psagermanpol.bsky.social · Jul 18

🔁Please share 🔁
Are you an undergraduate or masters student in the UK 💂‍♂️working on German Politics⚫🔴🟡?

We award up to three Essay Prizes 🥇

Submit your essays or dissertations now 📫

Contact us, if you have any question 🙋

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PSA75 Essay Prize

To mark the 75th anniversary of the UK’s Political Studies Association, the German Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) has created a one-off essay prize for undergraduate and masters students to celeb…

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Alfie Gaffney @alfiegaffney.bsky.social · Jul 7

Really pleased that some research from my PhD has been published today in npj Climate Action ⬇️

Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Jul 7

How do ambitious climate policies take shape in local authorities operating in relatively unfavourable, resource-constrained contexts? Check out this article by @alfiegaffney.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social @nature.com rdcu.be/eu8GU

Accelerating climate action in unfavourable local contexts: the role of policy entrepreneurship

npj Climate Action - Accelerating climate action in unfavourable local contexts: the role of policy entrepreneurship

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Polity, Journal of Political Science @polityalsberuf.bsky.social · Apr 8

Check out the Guest Editors' Note from our April Issue, written by @johnkenny.bsky.social , @sofiabrei.bsky.social , and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. It is available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...

Polity | Vol 57, No 2

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · Apr 25

New journal article 📢

A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events

This article reviews the rapidly emerging literature on citizens’ assemblies and assesses their significance for understanding climate policy and governance.

buff.ly/KCSUFgl 🤝

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · Apr 24

A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies, said to improve legitimacy and efficacy of #ClimatePolicy 🤝

Key insights:

🟢 There are disagreements on roles + purposes
🟢 How evidence is presented can provide opps for value-based debate + challenging status quo

Read in full: buff.ly/KCSUFgl

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Apr 21

🔓 : Advocates of national citizens' #climate assemblies (NCCAs) maintain that they improve the quality & legitimacy of policymaking. Lorenzoni et al. (@lucasgeese.bsky.social @chantal-st.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social) find substantial variation in character, impact & perceived legitimacy⬇️

A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events

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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · Apr 18

New publication in Climate Policy—open access!
We reviewed national citizens’ climate assemblies and found substantial variation in process, impact, and perceived legitimacy.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Co-authored with Irene Lorenzoni, Andrew Jordan & @chantal-st.bsky.social

A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events

Citizen’s Climate Assemblies (CCA) have been hailed by academics and non-academics as initiatives to improve the legitimacy and efficacy of climate policy governance. Yet it is only recently that s...

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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · Apr 16

New OA article now in @govandopp.bsky.social issue! Tougher immigration stances by centre-right govts boost political distrust—esp. among pro-immigration citizens—without hurting far-right support. Democratic costs? Quite possibly.

Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#polsci #FarRight

Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core

Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting - Volume 60 Issue 2

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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · Apr 15

New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with Michael Lewis-Beck. We show that political economy models - based on inflation rate, government/prime minister approval, and the number of terms in office - performed well in forecasting CON vote share ahead of the 2024 GE
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · Apr 11

What can we learn from the 2024 General Election for the UK climate politics of the future? Very happy to see @johnkenny.bsky.social and my report published in collaboration with @green-alliance.org.uk and @cast-centre.bsky.social. See 👇 for the details.

Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · Apr 8

1/ Polling by @cast-centre.bsky.social around the last general election is the subject of our latest report.

It shows voters' opinions on environmental policies were less divided than portrayed by the media & some parties, with agreement and support for green policies across the political spectrum.

Opinion on climate change policy during the 2024 general election

Written by researchers at CAST, this report explores how voters in the 2024 general election were thinking about climate policies, with fresh insights for future elections.

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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · Apr 9

Great to see CAST 2024 polling be the focus of @green-alliance.org.uk's latest report on public opinion on climate policy during the 2024 general election. 🗳️

The report was written by CAST's @johnkenny.bsky.social & @lucasgeese.bsky.social and examines climate policy support.

Read the report 👇

Opinion on climate change policy during the 2024 general election » Green Alliance

Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment

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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · Apr 8

In this report with @lucasgeese.bsky.social, we present findings from polling we carried out just before last year's UK general election in which we examined support for climate policies among the British public.

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Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · Apr 8

1/ Polling by @cast-centre.bsky.social around the last general election is the subject of our latest report.

It shows voters' opinions on environmental policies were less divided than portrayed by the media & some parties, with agreement and support for green policies across the political spectrum.

Opinion on climate change policy during the 2024 general election

Written by researchers at CAST, this report explores how voters in the 2024 general election were thinking about climate policies, with fresh insights for future elections.

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · Mar 5

🇦🇹's new government seeks to "temporarily" halt family reunifications, citing the "burden" on the education system.

Most experts agree this violates human rights & EU law and is unlikely to hold.

It's also problematic insofar as it legitimises a core programmatic point of the far-right FPÖ. 1/

Erstes Interview in Schwarz-Rot-Pink: Stopp des Familiennachzugs kommt "sofort"

Die neue Bundesregierung will nicht nur härtere Maßnahmen bei der Migration, sondern auch das Bundesheer aufrüsten und höhere Steuern vermeiden

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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · Mar 6

When politicians have strongly held views which conflict however with those of their voters, parties or independent experts , should they stay true to themselves or give in to the views of those stakeholders?

John Kenny and I have surveyed British and German citizens and politicians on that.

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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · Feb 26

Together with @lucasgeese.bsky.social , we show (doi.org/10.1086/734680open) that there are differences in preferences for politicians being true to themselves among publics and MPs in Germany and GB. MPs may be more constrained in their ability to be true to themselves under certain conditions 9/12

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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · Feb 26

Together with @lucasgeese.bsky.social , we show (doi.org/10.1086/734680open) that there are differences in preferences for politicians being true to themselves among publics and MPs in Germany and GB. MPs may be more constrained in their ability to be true to themselves under certain conditions 9/12

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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · Feb 26

The articles from the forthcoming SI on Political Authenticity - edited by myself, @sofiabrei.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck - at @polityalsberuf.bsky.social are now online. In the introduction (doi.org/10.1086/734784) we set out its contribution and summarise each article 1/12

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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · Feb 19

Aus. Vorbei. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben werde ich meine Stimme bei einer Bundestagswahl nicht abgeben können. Tausenden Auslandsdeutschen geht es genauso. Warum ich stocksauer bin. 👇👇👇

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Warum ich erstmals in meinem Leben keine Wahl habe

Unser US-Korrespondent hat wie Tausende andere Auslandsdeutsche in den Vereinigten Staaten bis heute seine Briefwahlunterlagen nicht erhalten. Deshalb kann er seine Stimme bei der Bundestagswahl nicht...

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Jorge M. Fernandes @jmfernandes86.bsky.social · Feb 18

‼️ Hiring‼️ -- 10 days to deadline!

Two postdoctoral positions in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid.

Application deadline: February 28
Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb

Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Nov 21

New article from John Kenny , Lucas Geese , Andrew Jordan and Irene Lorenzoni reviews the usage of climate change questions in public opinion surveys & provides an overview of the types of concepts that can be elicited from these.
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screenshot of article abstract, reads: Climate change is a significant site of political contestation, with public opinion frequently invoked to support claims for more (or less) action. Yet, ‘climate change public opinion’ is an umbrella term encompassing many different components. Empirical research has recently burgeoned, but an up-to-date and globally comprehensive guide to navigating the interconnected concepts currently measured is still lacking. In this review, we develop an original classification framework based on questions fielded in over 315 surveys across different parts of the world. We reflect on what aspects the questions elicit, relate them to patterns in the existing empirical literature, and identify and reflect on important implications for future research...

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Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett @chantal-st.bsky.social · Dec 17

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