Changing Governments and Changing Environmental Policies in Ontario: A discourse analysis

Garrison, Raymond M.; Massam, Bryan H.

doi:10.1080/13549830120073301

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“…Previous work has suggested that environmentalism is a 'new' politics issue spanning the political spectrum (Buttel and Flinn, 1976, p. 477). Notwithstanding such an assessment, it is hypothesised (Hypothesis 3b) that a left-right cleavage is evident in policy framing on environmental regulation.The basis for this conjecture is that the earlier study underplays the significance of parties' ideological stance: those on the right are generally less in favour of an interventionist role for the state (Garrison and Massam, 2001), while those on the left have traditionally viewed the state as an instrument of reform (Jones, 1996;Tiratsoo and Tomlinson, 1993).…”

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Party Politicisation and the Formative Phase of Environmental Policy-Making in Multi-level Systems: Electoral Discourse in UK Meso-elections 1998–2011

Chaney

2013

Political Studies

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Despite sustained public demand for parties to act, the environment has been subject to limited issue salience in UK state-wide elections. This article uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore party politicisation of the environment in regional elections 1998-2011. Contrary to earlier suggestions, the present findings indicate that multi-level systems may facilitate increasing environmental issue salience at the meso level. In part this is a function of nationalist parties' prioritisation of the environment. Overall, electoral discourse is shown to have a key formative role in driving policy divergence owing to inter-polity and inter/intra-party contrasts in salience and framing. From a normative perspective this suggests that the pluralising effect of (quasi-)federalism has the potential to foster greater responsiveness in party programmes through enhanced choice for the environmental issue public.This is an outcome of the expansion of electoral politics following state decentralisation and associated party competition to advance distinctive proposals over rivals.

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