Mitigating Global Climate Change: Why Are Some Countries More Committed Than Others?

Dolšak, Nives

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.2001.tb02102.x

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“…Since presidential and federalist systems involve more diffused political authority and more veto players, one view is that such countries with systems will find it harder to embark on rapid sustainable energy systems than parliamentary and centralised polities (see e.g. Dolšak 2001). However, as Harrison and Sundstrom (2010) argue for climate policy, what is important here is not only the position and number of veto players, but also what is salient for them, so the effects of such institutional veto points could go either way.…”

Section: Aggregation Of Values and Interests Through Political Institmentioning

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Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda

Lockwood

Kuzemko

Mitchell

et al. 2016

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Improving the understanding of the politics of sustainable energy transitions has become a major focus for research. This paper builds on recent interest in institutionalist approaches to consider in some depth the agenda arising from a historical institutionalist perspective on such transitions. It is argued that historical institutionalism is a valuable complement to socio-technical systems approaches, offering tools for the explicit analysis of institutional dynamics that are present but implicit in the latter framework, opening up new questions and providing useful empirical material relevant for the study of the wider political contexts within which transitions are emerging. Deploying a number of core concepts including veto players, power, unintended consequences, and positive and negative feedback in a variety of ways, the paper explores research agendas in two broad areas: understanding diversity in transition outcomes in terms of the effects of different institutional arrangements, and the understanding of transitions in terms of institutional development and change. A range of issues are explored, including: the roles of electoral and political institutions, regulatory agencies, the creation of politically credible commitment to transition policies, power and incumbency, institutional systems and varieties of capitalism, sources of regime stability and instability, policy feedback effects, and types of gradual institutional change. The paper concludes with some observations on the potential and limitations of historical institutionalism, and briefly considers the question of whether there may be specific institutional configurations that would facilitate more rapid sustainable energy transitions.

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Section: Aggregation Of Values and Interests Through Political Institmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda

Lockwood

Kuzemko

Mitchell

et al. 2016

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

117

113

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“…Ecologically modernized countries in terms of productive efficiency and lower levels of carbon dioxide externalities are more capable structurally to commit to global climate change policies. Overall, the political economic costs of mitigation and adaptation are comparatively lower for ecologically modernized countries (Dolsak 2001). The last independent variable in our prediction equation is the education index.…”

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Ecological Development and Global Climate Change: A Cross-National Study of Kyoto Protocol Ratification

Zahran¹,

Kim²,

Chen³

et al. 2007

Society & Natural Resources

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This article adapts a theory of ecological modernization to characterize countries by their economic, political, and cultural development to estimate their structural and strategic readiness to commit and comply with the Kyoto Protocol. Hypotheses logically derived from ecological modernization theory perform as expected, with substantial variation in Kyoto Protocol ratification explained by our variable pool. Results from logistic and Cox proportional hazards regression tests show that democratic openness, gross domestic product (GDP) output per unit of energy input, CO 2 emissions per capita, and record of international cooperation on transboundary environmental problems significantly predict whether or not a country is party to the Protocol, and how quickly a country submits an instrument of ratification.

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“…7 Most quantitative work in the field employs ordinary least squares regression (OLS) (e.g. Battig & Bernauer, 2009;Bernauer & Bohmelt, 2013;Dolsak, 2001;Lachapelle & Paterson, 2013;von Stein, 2008). Yet this article contends that the hierarchical structure of emissions trends violates the critical independence assumption that is implicit in single-level regression.…”

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“…Although several quantitative studies have found that economic factors influence emissions trends (e.g. Battig & Bernauer, 2009;Dolsak, 2001;Lachapelle & Paterson, 2013;von Stein, 2008), this article goes beyond existing research in two respects: First, it employs multilevel modelling to determine whether economic development continues to be a significant driver once country-level clustering is explicitly accounted for. Second, it develops a more sophisticated understanding about the influence of economic development on emissions activity by building a random coefficient model that allows the effects of economic development to vary across countries.…”

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When does economic development promote mitigation and why?

Clulow

2016

Climate Policy

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Mitigating Global Climate Change: Why Are Some Countries More Committed Than Others?

Cited by 48 publications

References 24 publications

Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda

Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda

Ecological Development and Global Climate Change: A Cross-National Study of Kyoto Protocol Ratification

When does economic development promote mitigation and why?

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