NU-NCL Research Exchange Workshop on Democracy, Representation, and the Environment
名古屋大学-ニューカッスル大学 交流研究会
―民主主義と代表、環境の問題を中心に―
英国からニューカッスル大学のスティーブン・エルスタブ教授（政治学、民主主義論）をお招きし、交流研究会を開きます。エルスタブ教授からは、英国の「気候市民会議」とその気候変動問題の議論へのインパクトに関する最新の研究についてご講演いただきます。名古屋大学側からは、大学院法学研究科の2人の大学院生（大場優志氏、中矢勇二氏）が、性的マイノリティの代表や、ノンヒューマンとの熟議民主主義のテーマで研究報告を行います。
皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。
Date: 13:30-16:30, 19th March 2024（3月19日（火）13:30-16:30）
Venue: Meeting Room 1 (Room 212), Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University (Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya)（名古屋大学法学研究科第一会議室（212室））
Access to the Graduate School of Law: https://maps.app.goo.gl/x83UANp4aPG6T48x7
Language: English
Participation fee: Free
Registration: Please register at the following website by 12 March 2024.
3月12日までに下記のフォームからご登録ください。
https://forms.gle/Jr3cgmHHXmUk5Zex8
Programme:
13:30-14:30
Stephen Elstub (Newcastle University)
“Climate Assemblies and their Impact on Public Climate Change Debate and Opinion: An Analysis of UK Cases”
［The abstract of Elstub's paper can be found at the bottom of this website. 報告の概要は、下の方にあります。］
14:30-15:15
Masashi Oba (Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University)
（大場優志：名古屋大学大学院法学研究科博士後期課程）
“Democratic Innovation of Representative Institutions: Eliminating Structural Injustice”
Break
15:30-16:15
Yuji Nakaya (Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University)
（中矢勇二：名古屋大学大学院法学研究科博士前期課程）
“Democracy with Non-Human Agents: Animal, Nature, and Matter”
16:15-16:30
General Discussion
Organisers: Tetsuki Tamura（田村哲樹）(Graduate School of Law, NU)
Naoyuki Mikami（三上直之）(Graduate School of Environmental Studies, NU)
Contact: mikami.naoyuki.w2@f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Naoyuki Mikami)
【Elstub氏の報告の概要】
Climate assemblies (CAs) are being increasingly used to engage citizens in climate change policy making throughout Europe. Consequently, their design and operation are focused on optimising their influence on politicians, governments, and policymakers. Much less emphasis is placed on how, and to what extent, CAs influence the wider public. This is an important gap as it has been suggested that CAs could have systemic effects if the public is aware of them and supports them. For example, CAs could stimulate public debate about climate change action and possibly change climate attitudes too. This could also increase pressure on decision-makers to act on an assembly’s recommendations, improving their influence on climate change policymaking. Given the small numbers of participants typically found in CAs, implementation of their recommendations is potentially only legitimate if broader public support is secured. Research focused on high profile natural cases is therefore essential. However, research to date has focused on citizens’ assemblies generally, rather than climate assemblies specifically. Given the complexity and importance of the climate issue this gap needs to be addressed. Moreover, much of the existing research is based on experiments with hypothetical results.
To fill these gaps, this paper examines the relationship between climate assemblies and public debate and opinion on climate change through a comparative analysis of Climate Assembly UK (CAUK) and Scotland’s Climate Assembly (SCA). These are two of the first national climate assemblies and attracted reasonable levels of media coverage, meaning the public had an opportunity to be aware of them. We conducted public opinion surveys on both cases and surveyed the assembly members too. The assembly members do indeed have different views on climate change and action to the public as a whole, so there is a need for the assembly to guide public opinion and stimulate debate. However, we find that public awareness of both CAs was low. Despite this, the idea of climate assemblies contributing to climate policy is broadly supported by the UK and Scottish publics including some people unconcerned about climate change. We conclude with some reflections on the relevance of these findings for climate assembly design and their role in climate change action. The results will be of relevance to those interested in climate assemblies and deliberative democracy specifically and the role of public opinion and participation in climate governance more generally.
This research exchange workshop is supported by JSPS KAKENHI (19H00579, 23H00526) and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.（本交流研究会は、グレイトブリテン・ササカワ財団の支援により、科研費基盤研究(A)「「資本主義と民主主義の両立（不）可能性」の政治理論的研究」（19H00579）、同「気候民主主義の日本における可能性と課題に関する研究」（23H00526）の一環として行います）
