From Governance Experiments to Low-Carbon Transformations:The Political Institutionalization of Climate Change Mitigation in Emerging Economies (extension)

这是为正在进行的dfg资助的研究项目“全球南方低碳发展制度化”（INLOCADE）申请延期12个月的申请。我们的研究问题是：在什么条件下，在民主新兴经济体的地方政府层面，减缓气候变化在能源和农业等高碳密集型部门成为政治制度化？虽然我们的研究设计的许多方面都被证明是有用的，但我们目前的研究结果基于对全球南方制度化的文献回顾和历史分析（目前都在审查中），指出了必要的修正：(1)我们需要纳入话语和权力关系的条件，因为它们似乎与我们确定的项目案例高度相关，同时只有少数与低碳发展制度化相关的研究解决了这些问题，更不用说相互结合了。(2)对有关案例及其对政治制度化的影响的初步评估表明，需要采用比最初申请中所假定的更为复杂的比较方法。为了充分确定相关条件，需要连续评估这些项目的制度化情况，以及它们（单一和联合）对国家以下一级减缓气候变化的政治制度化的影响。此外，我们将对所有四个结果维度（修辞、组织、政策和实施）进行定性比较分析，而不是进行全面的定性比较分析（QCA）。自2021年启动INLCODE以来，我们开发了四个广泛的国别项目数据库，明确了概念框架，并调整了方法方法。然而，由于Covid-19大流行在我们的四个案例研究国家（巴西、印度、印度尼西亚和南非）造成的中断和旅行限制，我们不得不将2021年秋季的实地研究推迟一年多。由于整个项目在很大程度上依赖于经验见解，我们进行了广泛的案头研究，并与当地项目助理签约，以帮助我们确定相关的案例研究。我们现在计划在2022年底/ 2023年初对这四个国家进行实地考察。这将改变整个时间框架，这意味着我们将在2023年进行单一案例和比较分析。将项目延长12个月将允许我们纳入上述必要的概念修订并进行后续的QCA，这是我们研究项目的核心方面和创新部分。它还将使我们能够编纂混合的个别案例并确定案例之间的共同模式，系统地比较单个案例研究，并确定将减缓气候变化制度化的更多条件的重要性。

This is an application for a 12-month extension to the ongoing DFG-funded research project “Institutionalization of Low Carbon Development in the Global South” (INLOCADE). Our research question is: Under what conditions does climate change mitigation become politically institutionalized in the high-carbon intensive sectors of energy and agriculture at the subnational government level of democratic emerging economies? While many aspects of our research design have proven helpful, our current findings based on a literature review and historical analysis on institutionalization in the Global South (currently both under review) point to necessary amendments: (1) We need to include the conditions of discourses and power relations as they appear to be highly relevant for the project cases we identified, while at the same time only a few studies related to the institutionalization of low carbon development tackle these issues – let alone in conjunction with each other. (2) The first assessments of relevant cases and their effects on political institutionalization have shown the need to adopt a more complex comparative approach than assumed in the original application. To adequately identify relevant conditions requires a consecutive assessment of the institutionalization of these projects as well as of their (single and conjunct) effects on the political institutionalization of climate change mitigation at the subnational level. Additionally, instead of carrying out one comprehensive Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), we will conduct QCA for all four outcome dimensions (rhetoric, organization, policy, and implementation). Since the start of INLCODE in 2021, we have developed four extensive country-based project databases, specified the conceptual framework, and adjusted the methodological approach. However, due to the disruptions and travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in our four case study countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa), we had to postpone our field research from fall 2021 by more than one year. As the entire project is largely dependent on empirical insights, we have carried out extensive desk study research and contracted local project assistants to support us in identifying relevant case studies. We are now planning to conduct field trips to all four countries in late 2022/early 2023. This will shift the entire timeframe, implying that we will conduct the single case and comparative analyses in 2023. Extending the project for 12 months will allow us to include the necessary conceptual amendments mentioned above and conduct the subsequent QCA, which is a core aspect and innovative part of our research project. It will also enable us to codify a mix of individual cases and identify common patterns across cases, systematically compare the single case studies, and identify the significance of a larger number of conditions for the institutionalization of climate change mitigation.