Environmental Politics award a prize of £250 for the best paper published in each volume.
Volume 34 (2025) winners: David Caldwell, Gidon Cohen and Nick Vivyan, ‘Long-run trends in partisan polarization of climate policy-relevant attitudes across countries’.
Congratulations from the entire editorial team! In making this decision, it was agreed that:
Opinion polarization has become a major empirical feature of energy and climate politics, yet it has not been systematically examined across countries. This paper makes an important contribution by showing how the U.S. compares with its cross-national peers and how patterns of polarization have changed over time. Drawing on four ISSP Environment modules from 1993 to 2020, the paper provides a valuable over-time assessment of public opinion and highlights the gradual erosion of consensus around climate politics. It is a timely, rigorous, and highly relevant study that [is expected to] quickly become an important reference in the field.
