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‘Cut Pollution, Create Jobs? Yeah, Nah’: partisan effects on environmental protest in Aotearoa New Zealand

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dc.creator O'Brien, Thomas
dc.date 2018-10-10T08:40:54Z
dc.date 2018-10-10T08:40:54Z
dc.date 2018-10-11
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:38:53Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:38:53Z
dc.identifier Thomas O'Brien, ‘Cut Pollution, Create Jobs? Yeah, Nah’: partisan effects on environmental protest in Aotearoa New Zealand. Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, 2017, pp264-281
dc.identifier 0032-3187
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1080/00323187.2017.1387032
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13521
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182378
dc.description Protest is a tool that social movements can use to express discontent and present claims to those in power. In New Zealand, campaigns around native forest protection, genetic engineering, mining and offshore oil exploration have mobilised numerous participants, forcing the state to acknowledge public concerns and, in some cases, effect change of course. However, impact of the ideological orientation of the governing party on environmental protest behaviour is less well understood. The aim of this paper is to identify how political opportunities and threats in the protest arena are shaped by changes in the electoral arena. The methodology of protest event analysis is used to identify environmental protest under the left-wing Labour (1999–2008) and right-wing National (2008–2017) governments. Findings suggest that the orientation of the governing party is important in shaping opportunities, illustrated by periods of dominance of the electoral arena by the National Party leading to a corresponding intensification of mobilisation in the protest arena.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject Party politics
dc.subject environment
dc.subject social movement
dc.subject protest event analysis
dc.subject Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.title ‘Cut Pollution, Create Jobs? Yeah, Nah’: partisan effects on environmental protest in Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.type Article


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