Carter Neil, Ladrech Robert, Little Conor, Tsagkroni Vasiliki
University of York, UK.
Keele University, UK.
Party Politics. 2018 Nov;24(6):731-742. doi: 10.1177/1354068817697630. Epub 2017 Mar 23.
This study presents an innovative approach to hand-coding parties' policy preferences in the relatively new, cross-sectoral field of climate change mitigation policy. It applies this approach to party manifestos in six countries, comparing the preferences of parties in Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom over the past two decades. It probes the data for evidence of validity through content validation and convergent/discriminant validation and engages with the debate on position-taking in environmental policy by developing a positional measure that incorporates 'pro' and 'anti' climate policy preferences. The analysis provides evidence for the validity of the new measures, shows that they are distinct from comparable measures of environmental policy preferences and argues that they are more comprehensive than existing climate policy measures. The new measures strengthen the basis for answering questions that are central to climate politics and to party politics. The approach developed here has important implications for the study of new, complex or cross-cutting policy issues and issues that include both valence and positional aspects.
本研究提出了一种创新方法，用于在相对较新的跨部门气候变化缓解政策领域对手政党的政策偏好进行人工编码。它将这种方法应用于六个国家的政党宣言，比较了丹麦、法国、德国、爱尔兰、意大利和英国的政党在过去二十年中的偏好。它通过内容验证和收敛/判别验证来探究数据的有效性证据，并通过制定一种纳入“支持”和“反对”气候政策偏好的定位措施，参与关于环境政策立场的辩论。分析为新措施的有效性提供了证据，表明它们与环境政策偏好的可比措施不同，并认为它们比现有的气候政策措施更全面。新措施加强了回答气候政治和政党政治核心问题的基础。这里开发的方法对研究新的、复杂的或跨领域的政策问题以及包括效价和定位方面的问题具有重要意义。
