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The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018
Ambitious climate action requires sustained long-term attention from political leaders. To understand how climate change entered the political agenda in a developing country, we examine from an agenda-setting perspective the attention paid by Mexican presidents to this issue from 1994 to 2018. We pe...
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author | Balderas Torres, Arturo Lazaro Vargas, Priscila Paavola, Jouni |
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description | Ambitious climate action requires sustained long-term attention from political leaders. To understand how climate change entered the political agenda in a developing country, we examine from an agenda-setting perspective the attention paid by Mexican presidents to this issue from 1994 to 2018. We perform a longitudinal analysis of 968 documents referring to climate change published by four presidencies to describe changes in attention levels over time and to determine how changes in international agreements and public policies (i.e. systemic agenda) and National Development Plans (NDPs)(i.e. governmental agenda) influence them. Our results indicate international agreements and national legislation establish a baseline for inclusion of climate change into governmental actions. Agenda changes driven by international agreements result in reactive changes in attention, while ambitious approaches are aligned with proactive NDPs. Our results also indicate public awareness and electoral periods can open windows of opportunity for reframing agendas and promoting ambitious climate action. |
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spelling | pubmed-69785102020-01-27 The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018 Balderas Torres, Arturo Lazaro Vargas, Priscila Paavola, Jouni Nat Commun Article Ambitious climate action requires sustained long-term attention from political leaders. To understand how climate change entered the political agenda in a developing country, we examine from an agenda-setting perspective the attention paid by Mexican presidents to this issue from 1994 to 2018. We perform a longitudinal analysis of 968 documents referring to climate change published by four presidencies to describe changes in attention levels over time and to determine how changes in international agreements and public policies (i.e. systemic agenda) and National Development Plans (NDPs)(i.e. governmental agenda) influence them. Our results indicate international agreements and national legislation establish a baseline for inclusion of climate change into governmental actions. Agenda changes driven by international agreements result in reactive changes in attention, while ambitious approaches are aligned with proactive NDPs. Our results also indicate public awareness and electoral periods can open windows of opportunity for reframing agendas and promoting ambitious climate action. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6978510/ /pubmed/31974347 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14048-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Balderas Torres, Arturo Lazaro Vargas, Priscila Paavola, Jouni The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018 |
title | The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018 |
title_full | The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018 |
title_fullStr | The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018 |
title_full_unstemmed | The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018 |
title_short | The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018 |
title_sort | systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in mexico 1994–2018 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6978510/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31974347 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14048-7 |
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