Political Parties and Sustainability Policies

Abstract

Having recognized the limits of technological and economic fixes to solve complex problems, sustainability policies have increasingly become politicized in recent years. More recently the literature has started to become increasingly aware that partisan ideologies and political competition exerts influence on sustainability transitions. The goal of this panel is to further this debate by bridging the party politics scholarship with the literature on the politics of sustainability. Thus, combining the big issues of democracy and sustainable development, we are interested in papers answering some of the following questions: How do specific party families address the challenges of sustainable development - on an ideological as well as a policy instrumental basis? How do party systems change in the face of debates around sustainable development? Are sustainability policies creating new cleavages? How are political parties interacting with interest groups and social movements in sustainability politics? What differences in party politics’ effect on sustainability policies can we find between different political systems (i.e. types of democracy or capitalism)? We welcome papers using different theoretical and methodological approaches.

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