The Politics of Environmental Performance: Institutions and Preferences in Industrialized Democracies
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 7/26/2018
EAN 9781107542648, ISBN10: 1107542642
Paperback, 394 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
As the world faces the prospect of climate change, nuclear disasters, and water scarcity, it is clear that environmental degradation is an increasingly serious challenge with economic and social consequences. In this book, Detlef Jahn analyzes political processes in a macro-comparative study in order to estimate the role of politics in the field of environmental performance in twenty-one OECD countries. His model demonstrates various styles of politics used to combat environmental degradation. He finds that economic and environmental performance are still closely linked, and that moving towards a service society does not by itself solve the environmental challenge. The close relationship of these areas was made strikingly clear in the economic crisis of the new millennium. He argues that economic globalization fosters environmental deterioration, and undermines efforts in domestic politics and international coordination to improve the environmental record.
1. Introduction
Part I. Approach, Method, and Concepts
2. Explaining environmental performance
3. Preferences in environmental politics
4. The institutional settings in twenty-one OECD countries
Part II. Environmental Performance in twenty-one OECD Countries
5. Measuring environmental performance
6. Aggregating environmental performance data
Part III. Analysis
7. Domestic politics
8. International politics
9. The nexus of domestic and international politics
10. Conclusion.