The emergence of climate change policy entrepreneurs in urban regions
The emergence of climate change policy entrepreneurs in urban regions
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城市地区气候变化政策企业家的出现
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
M. Lemos
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作者：
Scott E. Kalafatis;M. Lemos
城市气候变化政策的制定一直与特定个人、政策企业家的努力密切相关。然而，无论是在总体上，还是在具体支持气候变化政策方面，我们仍有许多不知道政策企业家精神出现和传播的条件。在这篇论文中，我们使用了美国五大湖区371个中等城市的数据来阐明这些问题。在公共选择文献的学术基础上，我们探索了碎片化在解释气候创业的出现中所起的作用，即城市本身以及城市区域大都市或小城市区域内独立但相互关联的政府单位的数量。我们表明，这两个层面的碎片化不仅有助于预测个别城市出现气候变化企业家，而且这些层面之间的交流可能会推动整个城市系统的政策创业和相关政策创新的快速发展。
The development of climate change policy in cities has been closely tied to the efforts of particular individuals, policy entrepreneurs. However, there is still much we do not know about the conditions underlying the emergence and spread of policy entrepreneurship both generally and in support of climate change policies specifically. In this paper, we shed light on these issues using data from 371 mid-sized cities throughout the Great Lakes region of the USA. Building upon scholarship from the public choice literature, we explore the role that fragmentation, that is, the number of independent but connected governmental units both within the city itself as well as in the city’s regional metropolitan or micropolitan area play in explaining the emergence of climate entrepreneurship. We show that not only does fragmentation at both of these levels help predict the emergence of climate change entrepreneurs in individual cities, but also exchanges between these levels could drive the rapid development of policy entrepreneurship and related policy innovations throughout urban systems.