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Environmental Policy across Space and Time: A Comparative Approach to the Study of Advocacy Coalitions in Climate Change and Energy Policy in the United States.

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Title/Author:	Environmental Policy across Space and Time: A Comparative Approach to the Study of Advocacy Coalitions in Climate Change and Energy Policy in the United States./
Author:	Holm, Federico.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	149 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-01B.
Subject:	Energy. -
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ISBN:	9798802742372

Environmental Policy across Space and Time: A Comparative Approach to the Study of Advocacy Coalitions in Climate Change and Energy Policy in the United States.
Holm, Federico.

Environmental Policy across Space and Time: A Comparative Approach to the Study of Advocacy Coalitions in Climate Change and Energy Policy in the United States. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 149 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

To thoroughly understand how environmental policy decisions are made and how effective they are, we need to understand the environmental dimension of the problem along with the political and social context. Individuals rarely make decisions in isolation. Rather, they tend to form coalitions to aggregate resources and coordinate actions. These dynamics are conditioned by myriad contextual variables that define the opportunities and resources available to actors, partly defining the policies coalitions will support and seek out. Despite general agreement of the significance of contextual variables regarding subsystem affairs, our understanding of this dynamic remains unfinished. Theoretically rooted in the Advocacy Coalition Framework, this dissertation is structured around this fundamental gap in our knowledge and asks the question: how do contextual parameters affect the behavior and structure of coalitions and the policy actors in them? Specifically, I focus on two important contextual variables that affect policy actors: changes in systemwide conditions, and the distribution of power between coalitions. My objective is to advance our understanding of this relationship by looking at two conflict-prone policy areas in the United States: climate change and hydraulic fracturing. In doing so, I also revisit three core types of policy actors the literature has overlooked: material groups, purposive groups, and brokers. For each one, I explore their limitations as theoretical constructs and propose new ways to study their policy behavior in the context of highly conflictive policy arenas. The two studies conducted here rely on a comparative research strategy and use two novel datasets of actors' participation in environmental policymaking to understand the impact of contextual factors over actors' behavior and strategies. I use a combination of textual analysis, descriptive statistics, and generalized linear models to study the differences between groups and to explore the mechanisms that connect internal subsystem affairs and external systemwide conditions. The results provide important evidence of the effects of contextual variables have on individual and collective behavior across subsystems. This dissertation also represents an effort in reconceptualizing some of the core, yet overlooked, categories of the ACF. Chapter 2 provides novel categories to the study of policy actors, and at the same time, highlights the potential perils of using general classification schemes as a research approach. The chapter also provides evidence of redistribution of policy relevant resources and changes in the perceived levels of risk as the main mechanisms through which changes in systemwide conditions affect internal subsystem affairs.Chapter 3 offers another important addition to the literature by making use of count variables of brokerage chains in subnational fracking-related legislation to explore how subsystem characteristics affect the presence, frequency, and characteristics of brokerage. The potential drivers of these differences include the distribution of power between coalitions, the role fracking has in policy subsystems, and characteristics of policy brokers and their policy preferences. Beyond the respective findings specific to each case study, both chapters highlight the importance of incorporating distribution of power and partisanship in the study of the evolution of environmental policy subsystems. These variables play important roles in policy development, as well as in the behavior and strategies of actors involved in the policy process. The lack of serious treatment of these dimensions in past empirical applications of the ACF has been highlighted by recent literature. This call becomes especially salient in the context of conflict-ridden and highly politicized policy issues like the ones addressed in this dissertation.

ISBN: 9798802742372Subjects--Topical Terms:

876794
Energy.
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Environmental policy

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