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Environmental Governance Lab: In conversation with Christopher Cochrane (Part 1)

31m · Global Conversations · 27 Jan 16:00

This episode is part of a continuing series on the Global Conversations podcast, Environmental Governance Lab: in Conversation.

In this episode, Anthony and Regina get political with Christopher Cochrane to discuss the politicization of the climate issue, the relationship between political ideology and attitudes toward climate policy, Canada’s political climate following the recent election, and much more!

Christopher is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of Left and Right: The Small World of Political Ideas (MQUP, 2015) and co-author, with Kelly Blidook and Rand Dyck, of Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches (Nelson, 2016). His research interests are Canadian politics, ideology, party competition, and computational social science.

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