We identified the Twitter accounts of 941 climate change policy actors across nine countries, and collected their activities from 2017--2022, totalling 48 million activities from 17,700 accounts at different organizational levels. There is considerable temporal and cross-national variation in how prominent climate-related activities were, but all national policy systems generally responded to climate-related events, such as climate protests, in a similar manner. Examining patterns of interaction within and across countries, we find that these national policy systems rarely directly interact with one another, but are connected through consistently engaging with the same content produced by accounts of international organizations, climate activists, and researchers.
@article{arxiv.2412.15545,
title = {Climate Policy Elites' Twitter Interactions across Nine Countries},
author = {Ted Hsuan Yun Chen and Arttu Malkamäki and Ali Faqeeh and Esa Palosaari and Anniina Kotkaniemi and Laura Funke and Cáit Gleeson and James Goodman and Antti Gronow and Marlene Kammerer and Myanna Lahsen and Alexandre Marques and Petr Ocelik and Shivangi Seth and Mark Stoddart and Martin Svozil and Pradip Swarnakar and Matthew Trull and Paul Wagner and Yixi Yang and Mikko Kivelä and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15545},
year = {2024}
}