The Power of Youth: Political Impacts of the "Fridays for Future" Movement

Fabel, Marc; Flückiger, Matthias; Ludwig, Markus; Waldinger, Maria; Wichert, Sebastian; Rainer, Helmut

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4106055

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“…S1). Second, with anthropogenic climate change accelerating, extreme weather events such as heat waves have become more frequent and intense, and climate protests have become more popular 1,33 . The strengthened intensity of events may have led to a general increase in attention towards them, thus an elevated event-specific coverage, including an elevated climate change coverage.…”

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Climate summits and protests have a strong impact on climate change media coverage in Germany

Lochner,

Stechemesser,

Wenz

2024

Commun Earth Environ

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Media inform the public, thereby influencing societal debates and political decisions. Despite climate change’s importance, drivers of media attention to climate change remain differently understood. Here we assess how different sociopolitical and extreme weather events affect climate change media coverage, both immediately and in the weeks following the event. To this end, we construct a data set of over 90,000 climate change articles published in nine major German newspapers over the past three decades and apply fixed effects panel regressions to control for confounders. We find that United Nations Climate Change Conferences affect coverage most strongly and most persistently. Climate protests incite climate coverage that extends well beyond the reporting on the event itself, whereas many articles on weather extremes do not mention climate change. The influence of all events has risen over time, increasing the media prominence of climate change.

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Section: Articlementioning

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Climate summits and protests have a strong impact on climate change media coverage in Germany

Lochner,

Stechemesser,

Wenz

2024

Commun Earth Environ

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“…More recently, Reny and Newman (2021) find that the Black Lives Matter protests, following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, decreased support for the police and increased perceived discrimination against African Americans -although these changes only affected liberal voters, who were already sympathetic towards these positions. Similarly, Fabel et al (2022) look at the impact of the "Fridays for Future" climate protest movement in 2019 on elections in Germany. They isolate the location of the protests, as well as the extent of local participation, via mobile phone data, and find that local mobilization led to more Green Party votes in those areas in subsequent elections.…”

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Ne parlons pas de l’affaire Dreyfus: Antisemitic riots and radicalization in Fin de Siècle France

Grau-Vilalta,

Hix

2024

Preprint

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There is mixed evidence on whether riots lead to more support for or a backlash against the political side perpetrating the violence. While most recent literature has focused on contemporary left-wing riots, and the role of the media and parties in shaping public reactions, we look at right-wing riots in late 19\textsuperscript{th} century France, before mass media and mass parties. We use a combination of historical municipal-level election data and newly collected information on the location of antisemitic riots in early 1898, which followed the publication of Émile Zola’s \emph{J’accuse} in the context of the Dreyfus Affair. Using a difference-in-differences design -- comparing municipalities where riots occurred to those were riots did not -- we show that the riots caused an increase of about 5\% in the vote share in the 1898 elections of extreme right candidates at the expense of centre right candidates. These results are consistent to different specifications and robustness tests. The increase in votes for the extreme right are partially driven by an increase in turnout, but not by anti-incumbent voting, which suggests that the riots caused a shift in opinions amongst right-leaning voters. These results contribute valuable insights into understanding the consequences of political violence, suggesting that riots against an ethnic minority group can contributed to the mobilization of the extreme right, and that this effect already existed in the early years of democratic elections.

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“…Correspondingly, we also witness the emergence of more and more examples of individuals and collectives actively striving to disrupt and change the way our societies operate. This can be schoolchildren skipping classes and demanding climate action (e.g., Fridays for Future movement [3,4]), scientists pushing for new modes of knowledge co-production [5], or activists blocking busy highways (e.g., the Last Generation movement [6]). While these are highly visible forms of human agency aimed at sustainability transformations, they are however neither the only ones nor necessarily the most effective and efficient.…”

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Epistemic outsiders: Unpacking and utilising the epistemic dimension of disruptive agency in sustainability transformations

Spatan,

Peter,

Thiele

et al. 2024

PLOS Sustain Transform

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Disruptions (systemic disturbances) are crucial to initiate and accelerate sustainability transformations of large-scale social systems (be they socio-ecological, socio-technical, or socio-institutional). Their emergence, characteristics and effects strongly relate to the role of agents who aim to disrupt and transform the status quo, and which thus possess what we call disruptive agency. In this paper, we highlight the epistemic dimension of disruptive agency in social transformations, first by conceptualizing disruptive agents as epistemic outsiders with respect to the social system that they intend to disrupt and transform, and second by connecting this conceptualization to notions of belief, social practices, social networks, discourses, or institutions. We identify five advantages of this approach. Firstly, it informs and conceptually enables various promising interdisciplinary avenues to explore and potentially influence transformative change towards sustainability. Secondly, an epistemic conception of disruptive agency offers a key for an integrated analysis of the individual and collective levels of agency involved in sustainability transformations. Thirdly, the notion of epistemic outsiders conceptually connects agent positions across system boundaries that are understood to be of crucial importance for sustainability transformations respectively (e.g., “niche innovators” or “regime intermediaries”) but which lack an integrated understanding. Fourthly, an epistemic perspective additionally highlights the changing requirements and challenges resulting in two principal stages of transformations unfolding over time, namely before/after a new epistemic layout is shared by a majority of agents. Finally, the above features allow to derive and conceive of new intervention formats and strategies.

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The Power of Youth: Political Impacts of the "Fridays for Future" Movement

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Climate summits and protests have a strong impact on climate change media coverage in Germany

Climate summits and protests have a strong impact on climate change media coverage in Germany

Ne parlons pas de l’affaire Dreyfus: Antisemitic riots and radicalization in Fin de Siècle France

Epistemic outsiders: Unpacking and utilising the epistemic dimension of disruptive agency in sustainability transformations

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