A political economy of positions in climate change negotiations: Economic, structural, domestic, and strategic explanations

Bailer, Stefanie; Weiler, Florian

doi:10.1007/s11558-014-9198-0

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“…From this perspective the key players are actors who have decision-making autonomy and pronounce their interests. Individual actors are commonly conceived of as entrepreneurs pushing ideas (Blyth, 2002;Widmaier et al, 2007), policymakers strategizing to achieve the best win-set for their state (Bailer & Weiler, 2015), or executives steering their organizations (Hall & Woods, 2018). Viewing organizations as actors typically means a particular type of actor, such as an intergovernmental organization (IGO) or non-governmental organization (NGO), where the command and claim of authority is given by the organizational type.…”

Section: Actorhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recursive recognition in the international political economy

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Seabrooke

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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How are the tools that govern the world economy legitimated? Here we discuss how governance tools-such as policy scripts, templates, and benchmarks-are developed to contain particular types of knowledge. Such tools contain blueprints of how the world economy should work. Understanding how they are produced and legitimated is important if we are to comprehend how they replicate particular bodies of knowledge, policy languages, and norms. We suggest that 'recursive recognition' is an important trend in the international political economy, where different types of organizations legitimate particular governance tools; especially ones producing common metrics. For example: a private foundation releases a study on best practices in policy area X, which is then referred to as best practice by an intergovernmental organization, an NGO, a firm, and a global professional service firm. Investigating the extent of this phenomenon requires addressing two blind spots. The first blind spot is conceptual in the reification of agency and authority based on organizational types. The second blind spot is empirical in identifying how pervasive recursive recognition has become, and how it affirms the reproduction of power asymmetries.

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Section: Actorhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recursive recognition in the international political economy

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Seabrooke

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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“…However, Bailer and Weiler (2015) studied the impact of different factors (vulnerability, power, democracy, fossil fuel sector, domestic environmental standards and membership of environmental organizations) on negotiating positions concerning mitigation finance and emissions reduction targets. On a related note, the literature explaining the provision and allocation of climate finance has studied the impact of factors such as: the environmental orientation of the government or of the public in the donor/provider country (Michaelowa and Michaelowa 2011), level of income, carbon dioxide emissions or quality of government (for all three factors, see Halimanjaya and Papyrakis 2012), and the involvement of different government ministries or agencies (Pickering et al 2015).…”

Section: Factors Influencing National Positions On Climate Financementioning

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Limiting costs or correcting market failures? Finance ministries and frame alignment in UN climate finance negotiations

Skovgaard

2017

Int Environ Agreements

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Finance ministries are increasingly involved in UN climate finance negotiations, yet this development received very limited attention in the literature on climate finance or climate negotiations. It is not obvious from the literature on bureaucratic politics how these ministries will position themselves on climate finance: they may frame climate finance as expenditure to be limited or as an instrument for correcting the market failure of climate change. This paper investigates which frames have characterised the positions of finance ministries on key issues in the climate finance negotiations, and whether the use of a given frame corresponds to particular factors. Case studies of Denmark, India, Indonesia and the USA based on official documents and interviews show that the position of each finance ministry is generally consistent with one particular frame. The Indonesian and Danish finance ministries predominantly framed climate finance as a way of correcting a market failure. The Indian Ministry of Finance emphasised Common but Differentiated Responsibilities, which fits with the budget frame. The US Treasury's position similarly fits with the budget frame while sharing elements of the market failure frame. Finance ministries that had the lead on climate finance were more likely follow the budget frame. The use of both frames cuts across the divide between industrialised and emerging economies. With the exception of the USA, left-and right-wing governments were equally likely to adopt either frame. These findings indicate that strengthening finance ministry forums built around the market failure frame can be a way of reducing norm fragmentation.

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“…Due to the differing levels of national adaptability, economic viewpoints and vulnerability, the lack of compromise is well represented by the Copenhagen Climate Conference (2009), which is often just referred to as a negative example. The implications of this international conference are widely dealt with by the literature (Perlmutter and Rothstein, 2011; Carraro and Massetti, 2012;Trevors and Saier, 2010), while the standpoints of participating countries diverging from the ideal median that would have led to a solution were assessed by several studies (Bailer and Weiler, 2014;Trevors, 2010;Cartera, 2011). The fundamentally common conclusion of the studies is that despite popular belief, the participating countries did not only take bargaining positions based on their economic and social structure, but they surprisingly formed groups according to their common strategic interests.…”

Section: International And/or Folk Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Its growing popularity has been achieved by a sustainable consumption model, which basically builds on local supply and local communities. In contrast with the Techno-market model that requires fast-paced transformation, it expects a slower but more radical change concerning individual lifestyle from its followers, which an average western citizen is still not prepared for (Black and Cherrier, 2010;Annala et al, 2016). It initiates changes in the social value system that builds on the currently dominant economic model, and it desires to replace the consumer-style approach with attempts at alternative economic models.…”

Section: Figurementioning

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Interactions Between Climate Change, World Economics, and Climate Policy

Parapatits

2017

Acta Regionalia Et Environmentalica

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Climate change is a major current issue which affects natural, economic and social processes equally. Despite the widespread acclaim of the issue we still encounter economic and political solution models that are climate-sceptic and often contradict each other. As a result, national climate policies and social opinions constantly change in an active interaction with each other. Thus, this current study, based on the latest international literature, reviews and analyses the world economic tendencies, related social and political responses along which different official (national) standpoints are formed. Therefore, the interpretations of related scientific research results are often different, which can easily lead to unsuccessful problem solution.

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A political economy of positions in climate change negotiations: Economic, structural, domestic, and strategic explanations

Cited by 50 publications

References 76 publications

Recursive recognition in the international political economy

Recursive recognition in the international political economy

Limiting costs or correcting market failures? Finance ministries and frame alignment in UN climate finance negotiations

Interactions Between Climate Change, World Economics, and Climate Policy

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