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The effectiveness of climate policy depends not only on ambitious targets but also on the mechanisms through which policies are designed, implemented, and contested. Governance structures, bureaucratic capacity, and political dynamics all influence how climate policies take shape, whether they succeed, and how they respond to public backlash. The complexity of climate governance often leads to policy non-coordination, regulatory challenges, and competing interests that shape the trajectory of national and international climate action. Additionally, growing resistance to climate policies - both from political elites and the public - raises concerns about backlash and its implications for long-term climate strategies. This panel explores the mechanisms, challenges, and political dynamics that shape climate policymaking. Papers in this session investigate the role of regulatory intermediaries in coordinating (or failing to coordinate) green transitions, the role of European parliamentarians as backlash mobilisers in debates on just transition, policy capacity deficits in implementing EU environmental legislation, and the use of crowdsourcing technologies to build consensus on climate policies. Also, climate policy backlash is discussed for its contested and evolving conceptual nature. By integrating insights from political economy, democratic theory, and bureaucratic politics, this panel aims to foster discussion on how governance structures shape climate policymaking. It further explores how governments can anticipate and respond to political resistance, ensuring that climate policies remain effective and resilient.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Coordinating Green Transition Through Regulatory Intermediaries? Growth Model, Bureaucratic Politics, and Policy Capacity Drivers of Policy Non-Coordination | View Paper Details |
| Greece as an Environmental Laggard in the EU (2000–2022): Critical Policy Capacity Deficits in Implementation | View Paper Details |
| Crowdsourcing Consensus on Climate Through Polis: Insights from Action Research and Design Thinking Approaches to Democratic Theory | View Paper Details |
| Climate Policy Backlash: Taking Stock of an Unruly Concept | View Paper Details |
| Parliamentarians as “Backlash Mobilisers”: Climate Backlash and Just Transition in the Plenary Debates of the European Parliament (2004-2024) | View Paper Details |