Climate Action in the American Political Ecosystem
FNI invites you to a seminar on American climate politics, focusing on energy market trends, shifting business interests, and the dynamics of American political institutions in processing interest group demands. Why do conservative forces typically have greater leverage in US environmental and climate politics than in other countries?
The seminar will start with a talk by Professor at Yale University, Peter Swenson, followed by comments from FNI Researcher Irja Vormedal, and an informal, plenary discussion. After the seminar, we will host a BBQ with drinks at the FNI premises.
RSVP by 14 June, and please let us know whether you would like to attend the BBQ.
About Peter Swenson:
Peter Swenson is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His research focuses on business interests and the politics of industrial relations, social policy and health care reform in the United States and Europe.
Swenson has written, among other things, the books Fair Shares: Unions, Pay and Politics in Sweden and West Germany (1989) and Capitalists against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden (2002), which received honorable mention and the APSA Luebbert Prize for best book in Comparative Politics. He was also awarded APSA’s Follett Prize for best article in politics and history for “Varieties of Capitalist Interests: Power, Institutions, and the Regulatory Welfare State in the United States and Sweden” (Studies in American Political Development, 2004). Swenson currently works with Irja Vormedal on the role of policy-market feedback in US and global climate and energy politics.
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