Integrating environmental issues within party manifestos: exploring trends across European welfare states

Derndorfer, J., Hoffmann, R., & Theine, H. (2022). Integrating environmental issues within party manifestos: exploring trends across European welfare states. In: Bottom-up pressures, institutional hurdles and political concerns: the long path towards an eco-welfare state in Italy. Eds. Schoyen, M., Hvinden, B., & Dotterud Leiren, M., pp. 80-104 Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83910-463-3 10.4337/9781839104633.00014.

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Abstract

Climate change challenges the existing structures of the economy, welfare states and societies in general in various ways. Among others, it might contribute to widening national and global social inequalities and create new risks for societies. While narratives in the past often focused on trade-offs between environmental issues and social and economic interests, increasingly there is a recognition of the need to think about the different policy domains together (e.g., Jakobsson et al., 2018). Yet, although governments across Europe have recognized their responsibility to act against climate change, the implementation is slow and in many cases environmental issues have not yet been sufficiently linked to other policy fields (Gough, 2016).

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