This study demonstrates how interpretive feedback functions as an intervening mechanism during policy implementation that helps explain variation in subnational climate policy entrenchment. We examine three interrelated climate policy processes in Ontario, Canada from 2001-2018: a coal phase-out (2001-2014), the feed-in-tarriff (FIT) program for renewable energy (2006-2013) and a cap-andtrade program (2008-2018). Successful framing of the coal phase-out in terms of gains for both public health and climate change helped generate a broad-based coalition of support during implementation. Conversely, we find that the FIT and the cap-and-trade programs were vulnerable to framing around losses, especially regarding electricity rates and household costs, which counter-coalitions used to weaken public support during implementation. Our analysis demonstrates that building supportive coalitions for climate policy goes beyond the material gains and losses generated by initial policy designs. Framing strategies interact with policy designs over time to support or undermine policy durability.

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Cette étude s’intéresse à la formation des partis politiques et à l’origine de la cohésion partisane à la Chambre d’Assemblée du Bas-Canada entre 1791 et 1840. Pour ce faire, elle présente une analyse systématique de tous les votes tenus en Chambre en utilisant différents indices de loyauté. L’analyse cherche à évaluer les deux principales thèses qui ont été avancées pour expliquer le développement des partis politiques au Bas-Canada, soit les divisions entre les groupes ethniques ou politiques. Nos résultats démontrent que l’ethnicité est la principale source de division entre les députés lors des premières législatures et que c’est plutôt l’opposition entre les réformistes constitutionnels et les conservateurs favorables à l’ancien régime qui explique les divisions entre les députés lors des deux dernières législatures.This paper analyzes the development of political parties and the origin of party loyalty in the legislative Assembly of Lower Canada between 1791 and 1840. To do so, it conducts a systemic analysis of the legislative behaviour of the Members of Parliament (MPs) with various loyalty indexes. The study aims to assess the validity of two common theories found in the literature to explain the development of political parties in Lower Canada. Results suggest that ethnicity is the most salient issue of division among MPs in the first Parliaments, and that constitutional issues (reformists against conservatives) are the primary causes of conflict in the last two Parliaments