Theodore Tallent

Lundi prochain, je débattrai du backlash écologique avec l'ancienne ministre Agnès Pannier-Runacher et le philosophe @picharbonnier.bsky.social à Sciences Po, lors de la Paris Climate and Nature Week.

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Visuel de la Paris Climate & Nature week

La transition écologique en 🇫🇷 10 ans après l'Accord de Paris - où est-ce que ça coince ?

Rejoignez-moi lundi à 19h lors de la Paris Climate & Nature Week à Sciences Po Paris pour cette table-ronde

animée par @theodoretallent.bsky.social

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After being so wonderfully welcomed by Federica at Oxford earlier this year, I'm beyond thrilled to welcome her at home this time, here at Sciences Po!
@sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

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Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

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Théodore Tallent in Le Monde: Public support for climate action remains strong The Research Associate argues that most citizens support ambitious climate measures, with opposition largely reflecting political dynamics and concerns over fairness.

I recently gave a long interview to @lemonde.fr about the backlash to climate action in Europe. It was in french so my wonderful new research centre at the Hertie School, the centre for Sustainability (@hertiesustain.bsky.social) made a summary in English
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Théodore Tallent, politiste : « Sur l’écologie, il n’y a pas de “backlash” citoyen, mais bien un “backlash” politique » L’enseignant en science politique souligne, dans un entretien au « Monde », qu’il est faux de dire que les Français sont hostiles aux mesures écologiques. A condition que les efforts soient également ...

#Danslesmédias 📰

Bravo à @theodoretallent.bsky.social, doctorant au CEE, pour ce grand entretien dans @lemonde.fr !

Il y détaille les conditions d'une transition acceptable, objets de ses recherches : compensation, territorialisation, exemplarité des élites... ⤵️

cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

Théodore Tallent, politiste : « Sur l’écologie, il n’y a pas de “backlash” citoyen, mais bien un “backlash” politique » L’enseignant en science politique souligne, dans un entretien au « Monde », qu’il est faux de dire que les Français sont hostiles aux mesures écologiques. A condition que les efforts soient également ...

I gave a long interview to the French newspaper Le Monde @lemonde.fr on the green #backlash.

A great opportunity to discuss my current research and the potential solutions to build an acceptable and desirable green transition!

The interview : www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

👋 Welcome to the Centre for Sustainability @theodoretallent.bsky.social!

Théodore joins our Centre as Research Associate as part of the Ariadne Project. His research focuses on the politics of climate change with a particular interest for public opinion. We're happy to have you as part of the team!

Doctoral Researcher (100%) in Political Science 4 years Focus: Public opinion, Political Conflict, and the Far Right The Department of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is hiring a doctoral researcher with a specialization in quantitative research (survey and experiments) for the project “...

📢 Call for applications!

I’m looking for a 4-year PhD researcher (100%) in Political Science: focus on public opinion & the far right

You’ll be part of the POLHYBRID project @sciencepoulb.bsky.social, working with me & @caterinafr.bsky.social
Deadline: 9 11 2025

👉 Info & apply: shorturl.at/El2mW

With wine and cheese 😍

Thanks @chflachsland.bsky.social for making this possible. Looking forward to working with the team and starting new projects with colleagues from across Europe 🙌
And of course staying close to my special home at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

A new chapter starts today ✨️
As I'll be completing my PhD this year, I just started a new position at the @hertieschool.bsky.social as a Research Associate at their Centre for Sustainability.
An exciting year between Paris and Berlin, from the end of the PhD to the beginning of something new 🙌

Let's assemble a team of scholars from various countries and do qualitative interviews with centrist/centre-left politicians across Europe 🙌

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Congrats Diane, what a wonderful project for a fantastic researcher 👏👏

Study Links Oil And Gas Pollution With 90,000 Premature Deaths, 10,000 Preterm Births Annually Residents of California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are hit the hardest.

Residents of California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are hit the hardest.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Only 29% would back Brexit now — poll proves tables have turned We asked Britain about Europe, China and their least favourite world leaders, but one answer stands out

“Only 29% would back Brexit now — poll proves tables have turned”
- @thetimes.com

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People’s tendency to underestimate how much others support climate action is recurrent finding in empirical studies of climate policy support, and is a huge sore point for political climate action.

Thank you Federica! You and your team are doing such an awesome work 🙏

Thank you to all those who provided feedback on previous drafts along the way, for instance at EPG and EPSA in June.
Special shout out to the incredible team of @fgenovese.bsky.social who all provided fantastic comments during my stay in Oxford this year 🙏

This paper makes an important contribution by advancing a novel place-based framework for understand people's attitudes towards the green transition, insisting that cultural and material concerns are co-produced and intertwined (it's not ALL about money!).

Read more: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Qual findings reveal shared narratives of discontent, grounded in both perceived material constraints and cultural conflicts. Structural conditions shaped how residents experienced policy burdens, but discontent was also mediated by cultural narratives – about rural identity, norms, and landscapes.

The quant reveals spatial patterns of discontent aligned with key structural dimensions:
- composition (prevalence of vulnerable workers)
- economic structure (reliance on carbon-intensive sectors)
- material conditions (low density, limited infrastructure, constrained access to local services)

I show this with a mixed-methods approach. I start with a preliminary quantitative analysis of geo-coded survey data from France, combining individual responses on climate policy support with local-level contextual indicators. I then turn to qualitative evidence from fieldwork in rural France.

When policies are perceived to threaten these narratives and place unfair burdens, they can provoke intertwined cultural and material grievances. Rural discontent thus reflects not just opposition to costs or inconvenience, but a broader misalignment between policy logics and localised ways of life.

Residents’ responses to climate policies are also shaped by how their impacts are interpreted through locally embedded cultural narratives of place – about who people are (rural identity), how they live (rural norms), and how they relate to their environment (rural landscapes).

Structurally, climate policies often generate tensions within rural contexts because their distributional impacts interact with specific territorial features of rural contexts: (i) their composition, (ii) their economic structure, and (iii) their material characteristics.

To explain rural discontent, I advance a place-based framework: I argue that it is the interplay between the *structural conditions* of rural life and the *cultural narratives* of place that together inform how residents interpret and evaluate climate policies.