Symbolic or Substantive Policy? Measuring the Extent of Local Commitment to Climate Protection
Symbolic or Substantive Policy? Measuring the Extent of Local Commitment to Climate Protection
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象征性政策还是实质性政策？
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10.1068/c09185
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2011
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Rachel M. Krause
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超过1000个美国城市已正式承诺通过参与几个气候保护网络之一来减少其本地温室气体（GHG）排放。这引起了对搭便车理论和地方政治决策感兴趣的研究人员的注意，他们质疑为什么市政当局会参与这一全球性的努力。然而，虽然加入气候保护网络或采取减排目标是成本相对较低的行为，但实施这些政策需要更高的成本。这就提出了关于市政气候保护承诺后续行动的程度和类型的合理问题。通过这篇论文，我开始填补围绕市政气候保护举措的数据空白，并构建一个量化地方政府实施的温室气体减排政策的指数。该指数的数据是在美国印第安纳州的市政当局收集的，用于测试地方政治决策理论。调查结果指出，政策企业家在推进当地气候保护方面发挥的重要作用，以及气候保护组织成员的潜在不足，这是减少温室气体活动增加的一个指标。
Over 1000 US municipalities have formally committed to reduce their local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through participation in one of several climate-protection networks. This has attracted the attention of researchers interested in theories of free riding and local political decision making who question why municipalities become engaged in this global effort. However, whereas joining a climate-protection network or adopting an emissions-reduction goal are relatively low-cost acts, the implementation of such policies entails higher costs. This raises legitimate questions about the extent and type of follow-through made on municipal climate-protection commitments. With this paper I begin to fill in the data gap around municipal climate-protection initiatives and construct an index that quantifies the GHG-reduction policies implemented by local governments. Data informing the index are collected on municipalities in the US state of Indiana and are used to test theories of local political decision making. Findings point to the important role that policy entrepreneurs play in advancing local climate protection as well as to the potential inadequacy of membership in climate-protection organizations as an indicator of increased implementation of GHG-reducing activities.
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