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SUMMARY:Green Backlash and the Political Consequences of Politicized Energ
 y Prices - Dr Zach Dickson (LSE)
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260205T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Who bears the costs of decarbonization—and who is blamed for
  such costs—has become a central cleavage in contemporary party competit
 ion. Building on research on “green backlash” and the populist radical
  right (PRR)\, Zach argues that sharp and uneven household energy price sh
 ocks create fertile ground for PRR entrepreneurs to frame the transition t
 o renewable sources of energy as unfairly costly. He examines the United K
 ingdom’s 2021–2023 energy price surge and shows two linked patterns. F
 irst\, using a new text measure applied to party communications in press r
 eleases and in YouTube videos\, Zach documents explicit blame attribution 
 of higher energy bills to Net Zero and climate-related policies. Second\, 
 using pre-shock geographic energy price vulnerability measured using admin
 istrative data on over 27 million household energy efficiency inspections\
 , he leverages difference-in-differences and triple-differences designs to
  find that individuals more vulnerable to higher energy prices become more
  likely to support PRR parties. Further evidence using survey panel data s
 uggests that voters indeed blamed the government's environmental policies 
 instead of the economy\, implying that political support for a green trans
 ition hinges on insulating the most vulnerable households.\n————
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 ————————————————\n\nSpeaker bio: Zach Dick
 son is a Fellow in Quantitative Methods in the Department of Methodology a
 t the London School of Economics\, where he is also affiliated with the Da
 ta Science Institute\, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change a
 nd the Environment\, and the Public Opinion Analytics Lab.\n\nHis research
  lies at the intersection of political behaviour and political communicati
 on\, with a particular focus on right-wing populism and climate politics. 
 Using quantitative and causal inference methods\, his current projects exa
 mine the distributive consequences of climate policies and the political e
 ffects of public service decline.\n\nHis work has been published in leadin
 g journals including Political Communication\, Comparative Political Studi
 es\, and the American Political Science Review. His research has also been
  featured in outlets such as The Economist\, The New Statesman\, The Guard
 ian\, and Forbes\, as well as in a range of research blogs.\n\n———
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  for people outside of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (D
 SPI). DSPI Members do not need to register.\n\nSpeakers:\nDr Zach Dickson 
 (LSE)
LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (VBR Department of Social
  Policy and Intervention\, 32 Wellington Square OX1 2ER/ Microsoft Teams)\
 , 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1ebac57a-4be1-4529-b9de-847a56bf855f/
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