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

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dc.contributor.authorO'Brien, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-10T08:40:54Z
dc.date.available2018-10-10T08:40:54Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-11
dc.description.abstractProtest 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.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationThomas O'Brien, ‘Cut Pollution, Create Jobs? Yeah, Nah’: partisan effects on environmental protest in Aotearoa New Zealand. Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, 2017, pp264-281en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0032-3187
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00323187.2017.1387032
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13521
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectParty politicsen_UK
dc.subjectenvironmenten_UK
dc.subjectsocial movementen_UK
dc.subjectprotest event analysisen_UK
dc.subjectAotearoa New Zealanden_UK
dc.title‘Cut Pollution, Create Jobs? Yeah, Nah’: partisan effects on environmental protest in Aotearoa New Zealanden_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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