dc.contributor.author
Tews, Kerstin
dc.contributor.author
Busch, Per-Olof
dc.contributor.author
Jörgens, Helge
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T08:23:08Z
dc.date.available
2010-11-17T11:00:55.880Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19983
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-23405
dc.description.abstract
New Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs) are increasingly discussed and
adopted across countries. From a global perspective a rapid diffusion of these
market based, voluntary or informational instruments can be observed. In our
article – which is mainly explor-ative in nature – we argue that the adoption
of NEPIs by national policy makers should not merely be interpreted as a
reaction to newly emerging environmental problems or to real or per-ceived
deficits of traditional (command and control) regulation in coping with those
problems. To an important degree the use of NEPIs can be ascribed to the inner
dynamics of international processes of policy transfer or policy diffusion,
which make it increasingly difficult for national policy-makers to ignore new
approaches in environmental policy that have already been put into practice in
forerunner countries. In a first step, the article outlines the concept of
policy diffusion. In a second step, we will de-scribe the trans-national
spread of four different NEPIs (Eco-labels, Energy/Carbon Taxes, Na-tional
Environmental Policy Plans/Strategies for Sustainable Development and Free-
Access-of-Information (FAI) provisions) by showing the respective pattern of
spread in empirically based curves. In a third step, the article analyses the
underlying mechanisms of policy diffusion. We will argue that in addition to
the national demand for adequate environmental policy instruments the spread
of policy innovations is influenced by the presence or absence of
international plat-forms or promoting agencies, which have placed the
advancement of certain NEPIs on their agenda; and by the specific
characteristics of the policy innovation itself. Finally, we will draw some
preliminary conclusions about the motivations of policy makers to adopt or to
reject new environmental policy instruments. We argue that the utilization of
a softer and more flexible approach cannot exclusively be explained by the
decision makers’ considera-tions of improving the efficiency of environmental
policy making. Additionally, considerations of generating legitimacy affect
the policy makers’ decisions.
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urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000354-4
dc.relation.ispartofseries
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000084-5
dc.rights.uri
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title
The diffusion of new environmental policy instruments
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
de
refubium.affiliation.other
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft / Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik (FFU)
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FUDOCS_document_000000007764
refubium.series.name
FFU-report
refubium.series.reportNumber
02-1
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000001465
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open access