Legally robust, politically fragile? The discursive institutional dilution of conservative climate discourse in UK Net Zero politics (2010–2024)
法的に強固、政治的に脆弱？英国ネットゼロ政治における保守派気候言説の制度的言説希釈（2010–2024） (AI 翻訳)
George Asiamah, James Jackson, Paul Tobin, Charlotte Burns
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日本語
本論文は、2010～2024年の英国保守党政権下でのネットゼロ政策の変遷を分析し、「言説的制度希釈（DID）」という概念を提示する。分裂、修辞的無視、孤児化、敵対的再フレーミングの4つのメカニズムを特定し、気候制度が法律だけでなく意味によって維持されることを示す。ネットゼロを維持するには、公平性や繁栄などの価値を政策物語に組み込むことが必要であると論じる。
English
This paper analyzes the evolution of UK Net Zero politics from 2010-2024 under Conservative governance, introducing the concept of Discursive Institutional Dilution (DID). It identifies four mechanisms—fragmentation, rhetorical neglect, orphaning, and antagonistic reframing—and argues that climate institutions endure not through law alone but through meaning. Sustaining Net Zero requires discursive renewal embedding fairness, prosperity, and intergenerational justice.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
英国の事例だが、気候制度の持続性には政治的言説の継続的な再生が必要であることを示唆し、日本のGX政策（特に2050年カーボンニュートラル目標）にも示唆を与える。SSBJや有報での開示要件の「実質化」においても、形式的なルールだけでなく、企業や政策の物語性が重要であることを示す。
In the global GX context
This paper offers a novel framework for understanding how political discourse can undermine legally robust climate commitments. For global GX scholars, it highlights the fragility of Net Zero pledges in the face of discursive shifts—relevant to any jurisdiction where climate laws face political headwinds. The concept of Discursive Institutional Dilution can be applied to analyze similar dynamics in other national contexts.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Scholars studying climate governance, discourse analysis, and policy durability will find the DID framework a useful analytical tool.
🏢実務担当者:Corporate sustainability teams can learn that legal commitments alone are insufficient; maintaining social license requires active narrative management.
🏛政策担当者:Regulators should note that climate institutions require continuous discursive reinforcement to resist populist rollback.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Abstract The Conservative Party governed the UK during 2010–2024; a period which included several flagship climate actions as well as rollbacks under austerity. To date, however, limited attention has been paid to how discourses and institutions co-evolve, and how narrative strategies shape the meaning and durability of legal commitments. This article examines the evolution of UK climate governance from 2010 to 2024 by introducing a new conceptual process of Discursive Institutional Dilution (DID). DID conceptualises institutional change as a cumulative process operating through shifts in political meaning rather than formal rule alteration The analysis identifies overlapping discursive configurations characterised by tensions between leadership, affordability, sovereignty, and pragmatism. From these patterns, four mechanisms of DID are derived inductively: fragmentation, rhetorical neglect, orphaning, and antagonistic reframing. The analysis situates these shifts within the crises of Brexit, COVID-19, and the Ukraine war, and examines the temporary ‘thickening’ of discourse during the Fridays for Future (FFF) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) movements. The findings show that climate institutions endure not through law alone but through meaning. Sustaining Net Zero therefore requires discursive renewal – embedding fairness, prosperity, and intergenerational justice at the core of policy narrative to resist populist reframing and ideological decay.
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- crossref https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-026-00308-wfirst seen 2026-06-04 05:32:45
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