Global Excellence Seminar

 
[행사보고] 제 75회 글로벌 엑설런스 세미나: "The Long Shadow of Partisan Hostility: How Affective Polarization Hinders Democracies‘ Ability to Rein In Their Largest Climate Polluters"

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[행사보고] 제 75회 글로벌 엑설런스 세미나

"The Long Shadow of Partisan Hostility:

How Affective Polarization Hinders Democracies‘ Ability to Rein In Their Largest Climate Polluters"

 

강의명: The Long Shadow of Partisan Hostility: How Affective Polarization Hinders Democracies' Ability to Rein In Their Largest Climate Polluters

일시: 2024년 05월 23일(목) 오후 12시 – 13시30분

장소: 서울대학교 국제대학원 140-1동 201호 Global Strategy Room

발표: Wesley Longhofer 교수 (Goizueta Business School, Emory University)

사회: 윤세미 교수 (서울대학교 국제대학원)

언어: 영어

 

 

 The Seoul National University Institute of International Affairs held the “75th Global Excellence Seminar” on May 23, 2024 in the Global Strategy Room (Bldg. 140-1, Room 201). Seoul National University Graduate School of International Studies (SNU GSIS) Professor Yoon Semee moderated the seminar, and Goizueta Business School at Emory University Professor Wesley Longhofer gave a presentation entitled “The Long Shadow of Partisan Hostility: How Affective Polarization Hinders Democracies’ Ability to Rein in their Largest Climate Polluters.” An abstract of Professor Longhofer’s presentation is provided below.

 

[Abstract]
Studies in sociology and sister disciplines have extensively analyzed how right- and left-wing parties’ ideological differences shape public opinion about climate change and support for policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, research has yet to investigate whether a new type of division - affective polarization or the tendency of citizens to distrust and dislike those from the opposing party - influences the emissions of major polluters and the ability of democracies’ existing policies and self-correcting systems to curb these actors' carbon discharges. Using a novel global database of over 23,000 power plants, we assess the impact of affective polarization on the environmental performance of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. We find that after controlling for whether right- or left-wing parties are in power and other potential determinants of emissions, power plants release carbon dioxide at higher rates in democratic societies that have substantial levels of affective polarization. In democratic countries, affective polarization also diminishes the capacity of extant climate policies and systems of political constraints (e.g., checks and balances) to mitigate plants' emissions. These results hold across different modeling specifications, suggesting that partisan hostility hinders the ability of democracies throughout the world to control major climate polluters.