Minding the time gap: politicians’ perspectives on inter-temporal trade-offs in policy and politics

Cronert, Axel; Jacques, Olivier; Ferland, Benjamin

doi:10.1080/13501763.2023.2282735

Journal of European Public Policy

2023

DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2282735

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Minding the time gap: politicians’ perspectives on inter-temporal trade-offs in policy and politics

Axel Cronert,

Olivier Jacques,

Benjamin Ferland

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The Conditionality of Political Short‐Termism: A Review of Empirical and Experimental Studies

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2024

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<p>The literature on political short-termism holds that multiple factors in current democratic systems drive political short-termism, leading to delays in government responses to long-term policy challenges, such as global climate change. In this article, I argue that these factors do not necessarily work as drivers of political short-termism. To show this, I first review the literature on political short-termism and identify electoral cycles, voters’ policy preferences, and interest-group behavior as potential drivers of political short-termism. I then examine the influence of these potential drivers of political short-termism on climate policymaking, drawing on recent empirical studies. I find that elected governments and politicians can, in some cases, (1) have incentives to pursue climate policies in the run-up to elections, (2) build public support for climate policies, and (3) overcome organized opposition to climate legislation. These findings suggest that although electoral cycles, voters’ policy preferences, and interest-group behavior may induce political short-termism, such negative effects on policymaking are conditional on other variables.</p>

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The Conditionality of Political Short‐Termism: A Review of Empirical and Experimental Studies

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Minding the time gap: politicians’ perspectives on inter-temporal trade-offs in policy and politics

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The Conditionality of Political Short‐Termism: A Review of Empirical and Experimental Studies

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