This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.
Analysis of climate change policies focuses mainly on the prospects for international agreements or how climate policies should be designed. Yet effective domestic climate policies are essential to any global solution, and we know too little about how and why such policies are a…
Introduction and overview -- Climate policies in the United States -- Theories of climate policy -- The structural theory applied to the cases -- Causes of climate policies in the fifty states -- Air-pollution and energy policy making in California (the 1940s to the 1980s) -- Cl…
This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.