Understanding policy change: Multiple streams and emissions trading in Germany

Brunner, Steffen

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.05.003

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“…Agendas are set not only on national levels, but through multi‐level administrative and other linkages between actors. As in the study by Brunner (), interviewees at different levels referred to international influence, here in the form of European climate events and Al Gore's 2006 film. At the national level, UK actions on adaptation were made possible through agenda‐setting processes that occurred not only nationally, but on local and regional levels.…”

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“…political institutions and policy experts that may influence EU agenda setting; cf. Princen and Rhinard, ; Brunner, ). Others have highlighted the role of focusing events in the problem stream in connecting actors across levels and creating the impetus for multi‐level action (cf.…”

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“…In line with such a dynamic focus, this paper applies Kingdon's agenda‐setting framework to planned adaptation measures in each country at multiple scales to analyse the development of policy, political frameworks and the way in which problems may render an issue relevant on state, regional and local levels (cf. Princen and Rhinard, ; Brunner, ). Specifically, the aim of the paper is to assess the emergence of planned adaptation through the application of an agenda‐setting approach in nested multi‐level governance cases (cf.…”

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Agenda‐setting on the environment: the development of climate change adaptation as an issue in European states

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Adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognized as a necessary complement to mitigation, resulting in a growing number of adaptation policies and actions across the globe. This study applies John Kingdon's theory of agenda setting through a multi‐level approach to explain the ways in which the climate change adaptation issue has recently developed in four European countries: the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland and Italy. The study illustrates that a multi‐level adaptation policy window has been opened in the context of the UK, whereas adaptation has mainly developed on the national and in specific local cases in Finland and Sweden, while in Italy the issue remains off the agenda. The study thus shows that policy windows may be supported through the interaction of streams at both national and sub‐national levels, particularly buttressed by focusing climate events and media reporting. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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“…The basic conclusions here are not precise forecasts, but the fact that investments in gas power plants incur higher fuel price uncertainty and thus pose a higher financial risk to investors. Brunner (2008) for an overview of the preceding political processes and Schafhausen (2006) for an interim ministerial report. 6 The discrepancy is somewhat reduced because certificates used for coal during off-peak were passed through at lower rates (see above …”

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Germany’s dash for coal: Exploring drivers and factors

Pahle

2010

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“…In Europe, this experience made auctioning somewhat more politically attractive than ever before, leading Germany and Britain to auction nearly 10% of their allowances by 2009, though resisting bolder steps in the face of private sector opposition. This allowed the EU to contend that it was responding to earlier abuses and thereby “make the allocation process more transparent and efficient” (Brunner 2008, 504), while averting the political risks that might follow more intensive cost imposition that have so complicated earlier experimentation with carbon taxes in that case (Cass 2006).…”

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The Aversion to Direct Cost Imposition: Selecting Climate Policy Tools in the United States

Rabe

2010

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Numerous policy tools could be employed in attempting to mitigate climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Direct cost imposition through the taxation of carbon content of fossil fuels has long enjoyed support from diverse policy analysts but has proven highly difficult to advance politically in the United States and many other nations. This article considers the evolving American experience in climate policy tool selection, including extended engagement by many states over the past decade and growing federal involvement in recent Congresses. It demonstrates the enduring aversion to direct cost imposition as opposed to other policy options. This includes a brief period in late 2008 and early 2009 when prospects for direct cost imposition heightened markedly at the federal level but collapsed quickly in favor of a mélange of other approaches that are likely to be less efficient but also less direct in their imposition of costs. The article concludes with considerations of other methods to advance direct cost imposition in the American case.

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Understanding policy change: Multiple streams and emissions trading in Germany

Cited by 117 publications

References 31 publications

Agenda‐setting on the environment: the development of climate change adaptation as an issue in European states

Agenda‐setting on the environment: the development of climate change adaptation as an issue in European states

Germany’s dash for coal: Exploring drivers and factors

The Aversion to Direct Cost Imposition: Selecting Climate Policy Tools in the United States

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