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Climate change in the 2019 Canadian federal election

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dc.contributor.authorBoulianne, Shelley
dc.contributor.authorBelland, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorSleptcov, Nikita
dc.contributor.authorLarsson, Anders Olof
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-08
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T01:44:38Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T01:44:38Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn the weeks before the 2019 federal election, climate change strikes occurred in Canada and across the globe, which may have increased the salience of this policy issue. We use two data sources to examine the role of climate change in the 2019 federal election: a representative survey of 1500 Canadians and 2109 Facebook posts from the five major party leaders. After accounting for political ideology and region, we find that concern about climate change was a strong positive predictor of liberal support. We triangulate these findings by analyzing Facebook posts. We find that left-wing politicians were more likely to post about climate change and that posts about climate change received more likes, comments, and shares than other posts. This higher level of user engagement did not differ depending on which political party posted the climate change message. The combination of sources offers news insights into citizen-elite interactions and electoral outcomes. Climate change was important in the election, whether this importance was measured through survey data or user engagement with leaders’ climate change posts.
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dc.identifier.citationBoulianne, Shelley, Stephanie Belland, Nikita Sleptcov, and Anders O. Larsson 2021. "Climate Change in the 2019 Canadian Federal Election" Climate 9, no. 5: 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9050070
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/cli9050070
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/2482
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution (CC BY)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectelection
dc.subjectpolitical ideology
dc.subjectcandidates
dc.subjectpartisanship
dc.subjectdigital trace data
dc.subjectsurvey data
dc.titleClimate change in the 2019 Canadian federal electionen
dc.typeArticle

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