Political Economy and Instruments of Environmental Politics 1st Edition by Friedrich Schneider, Andrea Kollmann, Johannes Reichl ISBN 0262329735 9780262329736

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ISBN 10: 0262329735

ISBN 13: 9780262329736 

Author: Friedrich Schneider, Andrea Kollmann, Johannes Reichl 

Conceptual, empirical, and theoretical analyses of the effectiveness of market-based policy instruments in achieving environmental goals.

Economists argue that such market-based policy instruments as environmental taxes and emission trading systems are the best way to target the negative effects of pollution. Yet there is no agreement about whether the use of these instruments is sufficient, whether they are deployed efficiently, and which factors influence their effectiveness. Nor is it clear if such policies have had any significant effect on the urgent matter of climate change mitigation. This volume offers conceptual, empirical, and theoretical analyses of the effectiveness of these policy instruments in achieving environmental goals. Taken together, the chapters not only identify shortcomings of existing policy making, but also point to ways in which more effective policy design can help solve one of the most pressing problems of our time.

The contributors consider such topics as theoretical approaches to address the failure of the free market to protect the environment, the influence of people’s trust in their government on their willingness to accept higher environmental taxes, political determinants of fossil fuel pricing, a game theoretic approach to understanding domestic political constraints on international environmental agreements, and intergenerational equity and carbon taxation.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. From Theory to Practice—What It Takes to Achieve Implementation of Market-Based Instruments for Environmental Policy

3. The Political Economy of Climate Instruments

4. How Trust in Governments Influences the Acceptance of Environmental Taxes

5. Political Determinants of Fossil Fuel Pricing

6. The Evolution of Renewable Energy Policy in OECD Countries: Aggregate Indicators and Determinants

7. Green Parties, Environmental Taxation, and International Trade

8. Policy Distortions due to Heterogeneous Beliefs: Some Speculative Consequences for Environmental Policy

9. The Impact of Domestic Policy Constraints on International Environmental Agreements

10. The Clean Development Mechanism, Stochastic Permit Prices, and Energy Investments

11. Not In My Backyard Activism and Information

12. Time-Consistent Climate Policies

13. Contributors

14. Index

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