Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion

An, Brian; Butz, Adam M.; Cha, Min-Seok; Mitchell, Joshua

doi:10.1007/s11077-023-09499-1

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“…Hence, a city's or municipality's climate protection ambition depends on a beneficial combination of socio-demographic and socio-economic conditions . Furthermore, researchers link the adoption of mitigation policies with a green, left, or liberal political ideology in the respective municipality, the engagement in transnational city networks, but also geographical proximity to forerunning local communities or the existence of regional leaders (e.g., Abel, 2021;An et al, 2023;Kammerer et al, 2023;Kern et al, 2023). For adaptation policy, the most important drivers seem to be the perceived need to respond, in other words, climate change vulnerability (for example Bausch & Koziol, 2020;Kammerer et al, 2023), but also the possibility of citizens participating (Cattino & Reckien, 2021;.…”

Section: Drivers Of Local-level Climate Policiesmentioning

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Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda

Nagel,

Kammerer

2023

Review of Policy Research

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Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agendaClimate change, as one of the most pressing problems of our time, affects different levels of governance. At the international level, countries negotiate to find common ground on various topics related to climate change, but most importantly on how to share the burden of mitigating global warming and its effects on humankind. At the national level, national governments formulate greenhouse gas reduction (GHG) targets, set out climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, and formulate respective framework policies. But when it comes to the implementation of these targets, strategies, or policies, the protagonists are most often local governments or administrations. This is particularly the case for adaption measures, but also in the traffic, energy, or building sector, i.e., such sectors that concern infrastructural matters. In these areas, local communities have a high problem-solving capacity due to local knowledge and experience and should therefore engage actively in climate protection or adaptation endeavors (Domorenok & Zito, 2021;van der Heijden, 2021).This special issue on "Local Climate Governance" brings together 11 research teams that engage with a wide diversity of topics related to local climate policy, as well as different theoretical and methodological approaches. In this editorial, we summarize the most important findings of this special issue, link it to the most recent research on local climate policy, and make some suggestions for further research.

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Section: Drivers Of Local-level Climate Policiesmentioning

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Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda

Nagel,

Kammerer

2023

Review of Policy Research

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Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking

Pettrachin,

Hadj Abdou

2024

Policy Sci

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Several scholars have observed persistent gaps between policy responses to complex, ambiguous and politicized problems (such as migration, climate change and the recent Covid-19 pandemic) and evidence or ‘facts’. While most existing explanations for this ‘evidence-policy gap’ in the migration policy field focus on knowledge availability and knowledge use by policymakers, this article shifts the focus to processes of knowledge formation, exploring the questions of what counts as ‘evidence’ for migration policymakers and what are the sources of information that shape their understandings of migration policy issues. It does so, by developing a network-centred approach and focusing on elite US policy-makers in the field of irregular and asylum-seeking migration. This ‘heuristic case’ is used to challenge existing explanations of the ‘evidence-policy gap’ and to generate new explanations to be tested in future research. Our findings—based on qualitative and quantitative data collected in 2015–2018 through 57 elite interviews analysed applying social network analysis and qualitative content analysis—challenge scholarly claims about policymakers’ lack of access to evidence about migration. We also challenge claims that migration-related decision-making processes are irrational or merely driven by political interests, showing that policymakers rationally collect information, select sources and attribute different relevance to ‘evidence’ acquired. We instead highlight that knowledge acquisition processes by elite policymakers are decisively shaped by dynamics of trust and perceptions of political and organizational like-mindedness among actors, and that political and ideological factors determine what qualifies as 'evidence' in the first place.

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Local climate and energy politics: an introduction

Zeigermann,

Lepesant

2024

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion

Cited by 7 publications

References 90 publications

Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda

Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda

Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking

Local climate and energy politics: an introduction

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