The four faces of the environmental state: environmental governance regimes in 28 countries
In: Environmental politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 69
ISSN: 0964-4016
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In: Environmental politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 69
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 94, Heft 2, S. 364-380
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Environmental politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 69-91
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 94, Heft 2, S. 364-380
ISSN: 1467-9299
The notion of resilience is rapidly gaining influence in public administration practice and research, but a more comprehensive resilience research agenda in public administration is yet to emerge. This article aims to clarify how experiences and potential contributions from social‐ecological resilience research can inform resilience studies in public administration. By contrasting key components of the resilience paradigm and its policy prescriptions with established findings from public administration research, a set of key shortcomings of social‐ecological resilience thinking are identified: (1) deterministic systems models; (2) simplified accounts of politics and policy; and (3) a lack of systematic and generalizable empirical studies. To avoid these shortcomings, it is suggested that public administration resilience studies should explore multiple and competing models for how resilience can be generated; analyse trade‐offs between resilience and other values of public administration; avoid systems theoretical resilience models; and apply the notion of resilience in areas beyond crisis management.
In: Public administration: an international quarterly
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Regulation & governance, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 220-237
ISSN: 1748-5991
AbstractBuilding on the burgeoning literature on the association between the welfare state and the environmental state, this study empirically examines how the politics of the former has affected the development of the latter. We suggest that the size of the welfare state shapes the calculus of environmental policy costs by partisan governments. A generous welfare state lowers the costs perceived by the left‐wing government, as large redistributive spending allows the government to mitigate the adverse impact of the new environmental policy on its core supporters, industrial workers. A generous welfare state also implies diminished marginal political returns from additional welfare commitment by the left‐wing government, which lowers the opportunity costs of environmental policy expansion. To the contrary, because of lower overall regulatory and taxation pressure, a small welfare state reduces the costs of environmental policy expansion as perceived by a right‐wing government. Our theoretical narrative is supported in a dynamic panel data analysis of environmental policy outputs in 25 Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development member states during the period 1975–2005.
In: Administration & society, Band 50, Heft 8, S. 1072-1096
ISSN: 1552-3039
In this article, we investigate whether increased participation offers a way of addressing wicked policy problems. We utilize a natural policy experiment in the form of a 2010 reform of Swedish wildlife management policy aiming to solve longstanding conflicts over predators through increased stakeholder participation in regional Wildlife Management Boards. Using a panel study design containing quantitative and qualitative data, we estimate pre- and post-reform levels of three wickedness-reducing mechanisms: legitimacy, deliberation, and conflict intensity. Despite a substantial increase in participation, we find no evidence of reduced wickedness after the reform.
In: Marine policy, Band 70, S. 49-57
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy: the international journal of ocean affairs, Band 70, S. 49-57
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Environmental politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 1
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Environmental politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 1-23
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: British journal of political science, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 213-238
ISSN: 1469-2112
While there is broad consensus that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) sometimes succeed in influencing policy making within international organizations (IOs), there is much less agreement on the factors that make NGO lobbying effective. This article makes two contributions to this debate. First, the determinants of influence among NGOs active in different IOs, issue areas and policy phases are examined. The analysis builds on original survey data of more than 400 NGOs involved in five different IOs, complemented by elite interviews with IO and state officials. Secondly, the article advances a specific argument about how the strategic exchange of information and access between NGOs and IOs increases NGO influence in IOs. This argument, derived from theories of lobbying in American and European politics, is contrasted with three alternative explanations of NGO influence, privileging material resources, transnational networks and public opinion mobilization, and the broader implications of these results for research on NGOs in global governance are explored.
In: British journal of political science, S. 1-26
ISSN: 0007-1234
In: British Journal of Political Science, Forthcoming
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