Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

McBeath, Jerry and Rosenberg, Jonathan (2006). Comparative Environmental Politics. Series: Advances in Global Change Research, Vol. 25. 193 p.

Available online: https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/14fha3m/TN_springer_s1-4020-4763-0_117853

Compendium, available for purchase at Akademika:

Carter, Niel (2007) Policy Instruments and implementation. Chapter 12 in The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2d edition, Cambridge University Press

Duit, Andreas (2014). Introduction: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance. Chapter 1 in State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance. MIT Press

Eckersley, Robyn (2004). Conclusion: Sovereignty and Democracy Working Together. Chapter 9 in The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp 241–254.

Jagers, Sverker C. (2007). Compatibility between Sustainable Development and Liberal Democracy. Chapter 1 in Prospects for Green Liberal Democracy. Univ Pr of Amer, 2007. Chapter 1 ', pp.

North, Douglass, C. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. The Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-10

Smith, Graham (2003). Deliberative democracy and green political theory. Chapter 3 in Deliberative Democracy and the Environment. London: Routledge, pp. 53-76

Stevenson, Hayley (2018). Is Poverty the Main Driver of Environmental Degradation? in Chapter 3 Population and Poverty in Global Environmental Politics: problems, policy and practice.  Cambridge University Press, pp. 48-57

 

Online articles

Agrawal, A. 2001. Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources. World Development 29: 10: 1649-1672.

Beeson, M., 2010. The coming of environmental authoritarianism. Environmental politics, 19(2), pp.276-294.

Bättig, M.B. and Bernauer, T., 2009. National institutions and global public goods: are democracies more cooperative in climate change policy?. International organization, 63(2), pp.281-308.

Carattini, S., Kallbekken, S. and Orlov, A., 2019. How to win public support for a global carbon tax. Nature 565: 289-291

Maestre-Andrés, S., Drews, S. and van den Bergh, J., 2019. Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature. Climate Policy, 19(9), pp.1186-1204.

Duit, A., 2016. The four faces of the environmental state: environmental governance regimes in 28 countries. Environmental politics, 25(1), pp.69-91.

Duit, A., 2016a. Resilience thinking: Lessons for public administration. Public Administration, 94(2), pp.364-380.

Engels, A., 2018. Understanding how China is championing climate change mitigation. Palgrave Communications, 4(1), p.101.

Fairbrother, M., Sevä, I.J. and Kulin, J., 2019. Political trust and the relationship between climate change beliefs and support for fossil fuel taxes: Evidence from a survey of 23 European countries. Global Environmental Change, 59, p.102003.

Finnegan, J. 2019. Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper 321/Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper No. 353

Fiorino, D.J., 2011. Explaining national environmental performance: approaches, evidence, and implications. Policy sciences, 44(4), p.367.

Folke, C., Carpenter, S.R., Walker, B., Scheffer, M., Chapin, T. and Rockström, J., 2010. Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability. Ecology and society, 15(4).

Jagers, S.C., Harring, N., Löfgren, Å., Sjöstedt, M., Alpizar, F., Brülde, B., Langlet, D., Nilsson, A., Almroth, B.C., Dupont, S. and Steffen, W., 2019. On the preconditions for large-scale collective action. Ambio, pp.1-15. If you cannot access the published version: https://cecar.gu.se/digitalAssets/1717/1717752_cecar-wp1-final.pdf

Jagers, S., Matti, S., and Nordblom, K. 2019. The evolution of public policy attitudes: Comparing the mechanisms of policy support across the stages of a policy cycle. Journal of Public Policy, 1-21. 

Han, H., 2017. Singapore, a garden city: Authoritarian environmentalism in a developmental state. The Journal of Environment & Development, 26(1), pp.3-24.

Hardin, G., 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science, 162(3859), pp.1243-1248.

Harring, N., 2016. Reward or punish? Understanding preferences toward economic or regulatory instruments in a cross-national perspective. Political Studies, 64(3), pp.573-592.

Holzinger, K. and Sommerer, T., 2011. ‘Race to the bottom’or ‘race to Brussels’? Environmental competition in Europe. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 49(2), pp.315-339.

Laegreid, O.M. and Povitkina, M., 2018. Do Political Institutions Moderate the GDP-CO2 Relationship?. Ecological economics, 145, pp.441-450.

Li, Q. and Reuveny, R., 2006. Democracy and environmental degradation. International studies quarterly, 50(4), pp.935-956.

Madden, N.J., 2014. Green means stop: veto players and their impact on climate-change policy outputs. Environmental Politics, 23(4), pp.570-589.

Mansbridge, J. 2014. What is Political Science for? Perspectives on Politics, 12(1), 8-17.

Mourao, P.R., 2019. The effectiveness of Green voices in parliaments: Do Green Parties matter in the control of pollution?. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 21(2), pp.985-1011.

Povitkina, Marina 2018. Necessary but not Sustainable? The Limits of Democracy in Achieving Environmental Sustainability. Göteborg studies in politics 155, edited by Bo Rothstein, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Introductory chapter to the dissertation. Available at: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/56151

Povitkina, M., 2018. The limits of democracy in tackling climate change. Environmental politics, 27(3), pp.411-432.

Povitkina, M. and Bolkvadze, K. 2019. Fresh pipes with dirty water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies. European Journal of Political Research 58(4), pp. 1191-1212

Rothstein, B.O. and Teorell, J.A., 2008. What is quality of government? A theory of impartial government institutions. Governance, 21(2), pp.165-190.

Sjöstedt, M. and Jagers, S.C., 2014. Democracy and the environment revisited: The case of African fisheries. Marine Policy, 43, pp.143-148.

Sommerer, T. and Lim, S., 2016. The environmental state as a model for the world? An analysis of policy repertoires in 37 countries. Environmental Politics, 25(1), pp.92-115.

Sundström, A., 2015. Covenants with broken swords: Corruption and law enforcement in governance of the commons. Global Environmental Change, 31, pp.253-262.

Ungaro, D., 2005. Ecological democracy: The environment and the crisis of the liberal institutions. International Review of Sociology, 15(2), pp.293-303.

Vogel, D., 2003. The hare and the tortoise revisited: the new politics of consumer and environmental regulation in Europe. British Journal of Political Science, 33(4), pp.557-580.

 

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