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Overview

Neil Carter is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on social sciences, particularly in the subfields of political science and international relations, strategy and management, gender studies, and global and planetary change. The main topics covered in their work include electoral systems and political participation, political influence and corporate strategies, gender politics and representation, the political and economic history of the UK and US, and sustainability and climate change governance.

The recent publications by Neil Carter include:

  • Party competition on climate policy: The roles of interest groups, ideology and challenger parties in the UK and Ireland (2020), published in International Political Science Review
  • From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015-2022 (2022), published in British Politics
  • A 'climate election'? The environment and the Greens in the 2019 UK general election (2020), published in Environmental Politics

Neil Carter has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Mitya Pearson
  • Conor Little
  • MJ Swaffield
  • M Liberts
  • Amber Gillett

The researcher has published across different journals, with recent work appearing in venues such as International Political Science Review, British Politics, Environmental Politics, and Australian Veterinary Journal.

Their academic pursuits analyze dimensions of political competition, climate policy, and the environment within the context of UK politics. The work on climate policy addresses both ideological and interest group influences, with a focus on recent electoral dynamics and party strategies. Additionally, the inclusion of publications touching on gender politics highlights a multidisciplinary approach toward intersections between environment and social issues.

Neil Carter's research contributes to an understanding of political participation and sustainability governance, reflecting contemporary debates on climate change and political responses within democratic systems.

Best Publications

  • The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy

    Neil Carter

  • How Organisations Measure Success: The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

    Neil Carter;Rudolf Klein;Patricia Day

  • China's environmental governance in transition

    Arthur P. J. Mol;Neil T. Carter

  • LEARNING TO MEASURE PERFORMANCE: THE USE OF INDICATORS IN ORGANIZATIONS

    Neil Carter

  • The Politics of the Environment

    Neil Carter

  • Performance Indicators: 'backseat driving' or 'hands off' control?

    Neil Carter

  • EXPLAINING RADICAL POLICY CHANGE: THE CASE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY POLICY UNDER THE BRITISH LABOUR GOVERNMENT 2006–10

    Neil Carter;Michael Jacobs

  • Greening the mainstream: party politics and the environment

    Neil Carter

  • Party Politicization Of The Environment In Britain

    Neil Carter

  • From ‘greenest government ever’ to ‘get rid of all the green crap’: David Cameron, the Conservatives and the environment

    Neil Thomas Carter;Ben Clements

  • Environmental Governance in China

    Neil Carter;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Exploring discourses on international environmental regime effectiveness with Q methodology: a case study of the Mediterranean Action Plan.

    Sofia Frantzi;Neil T. Carter;Jonathan Cranidge Lovett;Jonathan Cranidge Lovett

  • The politics of climate change in the UK

    Neil Carter

  • China and the environment: Domestic and transnational dynamics of a future hegemon

    Neil T. Carter;Arthur P. J. Mol

  • Political participation and the workplace: the spillover thesis revisited

    Neil Carter

  • EVALUATING AGENCIES: NEXT STEPS AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

    Neil Carter;Patricia Greer

  • Is Co-decision Good for the Environment? An Analysis of the European Parliament's Green Credentials

    Charlotte Burns;Neil Carter

  • Ecological Citizenship and Ethical Investment

    Neil Carter;Meg Huby

  • Halting degradation of natural resources: is there a role for rural communities?

    Neil Carter

  • Still saving the earth? The European Parliament's environmental record

    Charlotte Burns;Neil Carter;Graeme A.M. Davies;Nicholas Worsfold

  • Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties’ climate policy preferences

    Neil Thomas Carter;Robert Ladrech;Conor Little;Vasiliki Tsagkroni

  • Friends of the Earth as a policy entrepreneur: ‘The Big Ask’ campaign for a UK Climate Change Act

    Neil Thomas Carter;Mike Childs

  • Interpreting the precautionary principle

    Neil Carter

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur P.J. Mol
Arthur P.J. Mol Wageningen University & Research
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Richard Cowell
Richard Cowell Cardiff University
Philip Lowe
Philip Lowe Newcastle University
Christopher Rootes
Christopher Rootes University of Kent
Simon Bulmer
Simon Bulmer University of Sheffield

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