What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience?:

摘要: The article explains the variation of climate change salience in party manifestos, examining effects characteristics. Creating a novel measure parties’ based on Comparative Manifesto Project data, finds that parties have broadly not made salient issue, though significant differences remain. Left–right ideology significantly helps explain these and is more important than any other characteristic explaining variation. This underlines importance over economic policy preferences, size strategic incentives incumbency constraints points towards partisan (as opposed to valence) nature issue. These results contrast those an identical analysis environmental where found no effect, underlining how two issues should be treated differently lending further support argument valence