J Tosun
Biographic Data
| ID | 16539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Tosun |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Tosun |
| SIGNATURE | TOSUN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9367-5039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 111 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 921 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 109 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Subnational Climate Leadership Dynamics Among Under2 Coalition Members
This series explores the formal organisation of sub-national government and democracy on the one hand, and the necessities and practices of regions and cities on the other hand.In monographs, edited volumes and Palgrave Pivots, the series will consider the future of territorial governance and of territory-based democracy; the impact of hybrid forms of territorial government and functional governance on the traditional institutions of government a…
Explaining stated partnerships of Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations engaged in climate governance
Indigenous Peoples participate in climate governance in their own right and through their partnership networks. This research focuses on 100 Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations (IPOs) affiliated with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2266 partner organizations listed on their websites. Partnerships are central to how IPOs amplify their influence in climate governance: they provide access to resources, advocacy venues…
The growing gap between churches and Christian democratic parties: Evidence from Germany
For decades, denominations of the Christian Church have formed powerful alliances with political parties representing their interests, the most notable one being the alliance between the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic political parties that later evolved into Christian Democratic parties seeking to represent all Christians. This alliance is now fracturing. A major fault line has emerged over migration policy, where Churches increasingly call …
Learning Networks Drive Environmental Innovation: Evidence From Fourth‐Stage Purification Diffusion
Contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, threaten water quality globally. In the European Union (EU), until the adoption of the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive in 2024, a regulatory gap had left the member states and the municipalities in them without binding removal standards. Nonetheless, cities in the German state of Baden‐Württemberg had voluntarily upgraded wastewater treatment plants…
Latin American NGOs’ perceptions of cross-scale and cross-actor interactions in polycentric climate governance
The governance of climate change has increasingly been characterized as polycentric, with non-state actors playing particularly influential roles as climate intermediaries. Yet, there has been limited empirical analysis of climate intermediaries within polycentric climate governance systems. We examine how Latin American non-governmental organisations experience and navigate polycentric climate governance by analysing their roles as climate inter…
Limits of low-cost environmentalism: Experimental evidence on tap- versus bottled-water consumption
Many studies show that individuals are more likely to engage in voluntary pro-environmental behavior when the personal costs of doing so are low. Policymakers, in turn, are interested in identifying such opportunities in order to minimize heavy-handed government interventions and thus maintain public support for environmental policy. We revisit this issue by examining a case where low-cost environmentalism should be prevalent: choosing tap water …
Foundations for a green economy: How institutions shape green skills
Policymakers, companies, trade unions, and civil society actors increasingly recognize the urgent need to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy. This Perspective highlights the critical role of “green skills” in this transition. Our article identifies avenues for future research, grounded in the institutional foundations of skill formation processes. We emphasize the global nature of this challenge and the diverse institutional contex…
The “Hottest Ever January” in Germany: Farmers’ Protests and the Discourse on Agriculture and Food Production
Following the German Federal Government’s announcement of agricultural subsidy cuts in November 2023, farmers mobilized unprecedented protests, creating what their associations celebrated as a “hot January with more protests than the country has ever seen” (“Bauern wollen ‘Kampfansage’ der Ampel annehmen,” 2023). These actions ultimately forced the government to withdraw the proposed policy changes. Our study applies the politicization/depolitici…
Intermediation in policy and politics: Rethinking the architecture and process of governance
This article introduces the multifaceted roles of intermediaries in policy and governance processes. Intermediaries are organizations and actors that bridge the gap between the public and private sectors. They help resolve conflicting interests, transfer knowledge across different sectors and organizational levels, and facilitate policy coordination and collaboration in complex institutional environments. While certain types of intermediaries hav…
Populistische Rhetorik und patrimoniale Realität: Demokratischer Rückschritt und Bürokratie aus vergleichender Perspektive
Weltweit wächst die Sorge um den Zustand der freiheitlichen Demokratie. Wenngleich das Ausmaß der Bedrohung von liberaldemokratischen Institutionen und rechtstaatliche Verfahren sowie die für diese Entwicklung verantwortlichen Akteure zwischen Ländern variieren, agieren rechts-autoritäre und libertäre Populisten als aktuell einflussreichste Herausforderer der repräsentativen Demokratie in Europa, den Amerikas und in Teilen Asiens. Wo sie die Regi…
Moralization in Policy Narratives: Insights From the Politics of Climate Change and Public Health
In this study, we examine the process of moralization—defined as the use of moral values to mobilize support for or against policy proposals. Specifically, we investigate how political parties strategically employ moralization to influence policy processes, varying their approach depending on their political ideology and institutional position. We address several key questions: How do policy actors integrate moral values into policy narratives? D…
Conceiving of and politically responding to Neets in Europe: A scoping review
Young people Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) have become a target population of policymaking in Europe. After one decade of political attention and corresponding policy action, we consider it a good time to take stock of the literature that has dealt with young people who are classified as NEET and the policies adopted in response to the risk of leaving this group of vulnerable individuals behind. To this end, we carry out a syst…
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs
We build on research on polycentric climate governance and the strategic behavior of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to assess the factors that determine the partnership choices of climate NGOs. More precisely, we are interested in how these factors relate to the type of governance actors and the governance scale at which their partners operate. We concentrate on 195 NGOs based in twenty-one Latin American countries. Our hypotheses postulate…
Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature
Politicians' engagement with climate change is the focus of an emerging literature, but this research has not been subjected to systematic analysis. To address this important gap, we perform a systematic review of 141 articles on politicians and climate change published between 1985 and 2021. We find a growing research area; almost half of the articles were published after 2018. Existing research is fragmented and focused on a small number of dem…
Attributing responsibility to farmers for environmental protection and climate action: Insights from the European Union
The attribution of responsibility is an important aspect of democratic government and governance. This study is interested in explaining variation in the responsibility that the public attributes to farmers for tackling climate change and environmental degradation. It analyzes data for respondents based in the 27 member states of the European Union as offered by a special issue of the Eurobarometer. Theoretically, the study postulates that if ind…
Active Labour Market Policies and Youth Employment in European Peripheries
This thematic issue discusses the design, implementation, and impact of youth-oriented active labour market policies in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its peripheries. The need to address territorialised, youth-oriented active labour market policies is pressing for several reasons. For one, the whole socioeconomic paradigm is undergoing fundamental changes due to the dual transition (digital and green) that is expected to have an impact on…
Shaping multilateral regional governance of climate and forests: Exploring the influence of Forest industry lobbying on state participation
This study aims to characterise the institutional dynamics of Multilateral Regional Governance Arrangements at the Climate-Forest Interface (MRGA-CFI) and investigate the influence of the forest industry lobby groups on state participation in these arrangements. We use an original dataset to characterise the issue scope, spatial ambit, and governance functions of MRGA-CFI. State participation in these arrangements is modelled as a function of the…
Climate Action through Policy Expansion and/or Dismantling: Country-Comparative Insights: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Elected politicians and civil servants are key in developing climate policy. The articles in this special issue investigate factors that induce politico-administrative actors to adopt climate policies and dismantle anti-climate policies to advance decarbonisation. Politico-administrative actors have predominantly expanded climate policy and raised policy ambition in recent decades. However, economic crises and weakening public support may cause d…
Europeans’ Attitudes Toward the Goals of Agricultural Policy: A Case of Rural–Urban Divide
Is there a rural–urban divide in citizens’ views on European Union agricultural policy? We argue that the place of residence influences a person’s attitude toward agricultural policy issues. More precisely, we postulate that rural populations are less likely to view environmental and climate action, and sustainable food production as key objectives of agricultural policy; instead, we hypothesize they are more likely to indicate job growth in rura…
Young People's Perceptions of Youth Unemployment: Insights From 11 European Countries
Youth unemployment has been an issue in European countries for many years. However, the attention paid to it by policymakers has varied over time, and there are high cross-country variations in both the size of the phenomenon, representations of it, and policy interventions. This study adds an intra-country component to the country-comparative dimension and assesses the factors affecting how young adults perceive youth unemployment. From a theore…
Three decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality
The European Union (EU) began developing climate policy in the 1990s. Since then, it has built up a broad portfolio of mitigation policy measures and governance tools, including legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and policy measures addressing emissions trading, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and more. In 2019, the European Commission—the EU's executive arm—published the European Green Deal (EGD), an overarchi…
Integrated policymaking: Institutional designs for implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Increased policy coherence and integrated implementation are necessary to address pressing development problems that cut across different sectors. Meeting these demands, as called for by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, requires institutional innovation. Based on the comparative analysis of 137 countries, this paper investigates how governments have responded to this call and which contextual factors shape their institutional response…
Intermediating climate change: Conclusions and new research directions
The urgency and threats of climate change have elevated the issue to a prominent – albeit often contested – position within the policy process. Resultantly, climate politics and climate change governance have received enhanced attention in both the academic literature and in real-life discourse. Yet, except regarding certain empirical contexts, there has been a lack of conceptualization or analysis of intermediating actors in climate politics – w…
Intermediating climate change: The evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries”
Climate change governance systems comprise a wide variety of actors. Here, we introduce “climate intermediaries” as one potentially influential yet often neglected type of actor, behaving as “go-betweens” that connect different types of actors and/or governance levels. This Special Issue analyses two under-researched forms of climate intermediaries: those that exist for reasons unconnected to climate change, and new or uncommon forms of climate i…
Presidents and intermediaries: Insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico
We assess whether different presidents have different “styles” of involving intermediary organizations such as trade unions or business associations in the policy process. Given that temporal variation in the relationship between presidents and intermediaries can be observed, to what extent can the intermediaries included in the policy process be explained by the respective president’s leadership style and/or political ideology? We concentrate on…
Economic Voting under Coalition Governments: Evidence from Germany
This article analyzes the impact of economic voting in federal elections for the German parliament. It combines theories of coalition politics and cabinet decision making—like prime ministerial government, collective cabinet decision making and ministerial discretion—with theoretical approaches on voting behavior to test which cabinet actor voters reward for improved economic conditions. The empirical results, which are based on data from German …
Policy integration: Mapping the different concepts
A growing number of studies have examined the collaboration of actors from two or more policy domains in order to integrate aims and concerns derived from one policy domain into another. In our literature review, we refer to this empirical phenomenon as ‘policy integration’, exemplified by the Health in All Policies approach. Despite the wealth of literature on the subject, the scientific community only has access to a portion of the insights tha…
The EU in Crisis: Advancing the Debate
The European Union (EU) has experienced an unprecedented economic and financial crisis since 2007, the effects of which form the object of analysis in this Special Issue. In particular, it addresses the questions of whether and how the crisis has served as an obstacle or an opportunity for further integration. It concentrates on two broad types of implications for the EU that are central elements of theories on integration and policy and public o…
Absorption of Regional Funds: A Comparative Analysis
This article evaluates the determinants of the absorption performance of European Union Member States with regard to the European Regional Development Fund's (ERDF) 2000–06 programming period. Theoretically grounded in Europeanization research and studies of regional governance, the empirical analysis concentrates on the ERDF absorption performance of 25 Member States at the end of the programming period in 2008. The results of Tobit models show …
Hierarchy, networks, or markets: How does the EU shape environmental policy adoptions within and beyond its borders
In this study we scrutinize the strength of the European Union s external governance in the area of environmental policy. We explore whether accession candidates and third countries adopted European environmental legislation along with the member states. In doing so, we focus on Community laws that limit nitrogen oxides in the emissions into the air from large combustion plants, and introduce the European ecolabel scheme and environmental impact …
Mapping states’ Paris climate pledges: Analysing targets and groups at COP 21
Public Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation
Despite recognizing the importance of public bureaucracies in governing climate change, our knowledge of how their behavioral and structural characteristics influence climate change adaptation policy is limited. This article provides an introduction to a collection of studies that seeks to explore the link between climate change adaptation and public bureaucracies, and to distill lessons for the scholarship on adaptation as well as the persistent…
Changing Economic Openness for Environmental Policy Convergence: When Can Bilateral Trade Agreements Induce Convergence of Environmental Regulation
Citizens' concerns about (international) environmental protection standards are of increasing importance to governments in industrially advanced, high-regulating countries. In almost any proposal for a trade agreement, countries with low environmental regulation standards are required to introduce higher policy standards in exchange for high-regulating countries dismantling their trade barriers and granting access to their domestic markets. Low-r…
How the Eu Handles Uncertain Risks: Understanding the Role of the Precautionary Principle
The European Union (EU) has adopted the precautionary principle (PP) as a legal principle for dealing with uncertain risks; that is situations in which the relationship between activities and their potential hazard cannot be established. While the PP's application has been defined by the European Commission and EU case law, political considerations ultimately determine whether and how it is invoked. This article reviews the literature on the PP's…
Responsiveness to Different National Interests: Voting Behaviour on Genetically Modified Organisms in the Council of the European Union
Does voting behaviour in the Council of Ministers reflect different national interests? In this article, we explore this question by studying requests for authorization of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The fact that GMOs constitute a highly contentious issue in the European Union enables us to look underneath the ‘culture of consensus’ which usually characterizes voting behaviour in the Council. We argue that the focus on one issue area …
Neglected Faces of Europeanization: The Differential Impact of the Eu on the Dismantling and Expansion of Domestic Policies
The objective of this article is to clarify the extent and the conditions under which the European Union (EU) induces changes in the policy arrangements of its member states. For an accurate measurement of our dependent variable, we distinguish between EU‐induced policy expansion and EU‐induced policy dismantling. We argue that the extent to which European requirements lead to an expansion or dismantling of national policy arrangements is crucial…
Contesting climate change: Mapping the political debate in Poland
We examine the effectiveness of norm diffusion by the European Union (EU) using the example of the climate debate in Poland. To explore the relationship between the salience of an issue and the internalisation of the externally initiated debate, we analyse both quantitatively and qualitatively votes and speeches in the Polish parliament. We find that the Members of Parliament regardless of their placement on the right–left dimension or their part…
Women’s Parliamentary Representation in the Czech Republic: Does Preference Voting Matter
The U-shaped trajectory of women’s parliamentary representation in Central and Eastern Europe over the post-communist era has generated interest among scholars and non-governmental organizations. One particularly interesting case of the recent increase in women’s parliamentary representation can be found in the Czech Republic. After the initial post-communist drop in representation, the proportion of female members of parliament (MPs) hovered aro…
Politicization, Depoliticization and Policy Change: A Comparative Theoretical Perspective on Agri-food Policy
This article introduces a multidimensional concept of (de)politicization, comprising strategy, process and outcome, in order to set the stage for a theoretical model that connects (de)politicization to policy change. The politicization/depoliticization– policy change (PDPC) model facilitates hypothesizing the relationship between different types and degrees of (de)politicization and likely types and degrees of policy change. To demonstrate the me…
Party support for post-exceptionalism in agri-food politics and policy: Germany and the United Kingdom compared
The past few years have witnessed the emergence of new actors and ideas in agri-food politics discussed under the heading 'post-exceptionalism'. Yet our knowledge about which political actors promote a shift from exceptionalism toward post-exceptionalism is limited. How supportive are political parties of post-exceptionalism? Which political parties support a strong form for post-exceptionalism and which a weak one? To examine these research ques…
Domestic politics and the diffusion of international policy innovations: How does accommodation happen
Giving less by doing more? Dynamics of social policy expansion and dismantling in 18 OECD countries
Protection against social risks is generally popular among voters and should enjoy the benefits of institutional inertia. Yet retrenchment occurs rather frequently in advanced welfare states without this systematically leading to electoral punishment. We solve this paradox by, first, arguing that governments can avoid the blame of retrenchment by pursuing a strategy of ‘expansionary dismantling’ where new policies and instruments are used to comp…
Co-governing common goods: Interaction patterns of private and public actors
This article addresses co-governance which can be defined as a dynamic interaction between public and private actors to secure the provision of common goods. Which types of relationship between public and private actors exist? Do the forms of co-governance change over time? When is the relationship between public and private actors cooperative, when is it competitive, and when do we witness conflictual relationships? These research questions lie …
External dimensions of E uropean environmental policy: An analysis of environmental treaty ratification by third states
The E uropean U nion has become an important leader in international environmental affairs – particularly through the negotiation of multilateral environmental agreements ( MEAs ) with favourable terms. In this article, EU environmental leadership is studied from a new perspective, focusing on the ratification stage of environmental regime formation. Specifically, it investigates whether the EU is also capable of motivating third states to join i…
Perceived economic self-sufficiency: A country- and generation-comparative approach
Existing datasets provided by statistical agencies (e.g. Eurostat) show that the economic and financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 significantly impacted the lives and livelihoods of young people across Europe. Taking these official statistics as a starting point, the collaborative research project “Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship in Europe” (CUPESSE) generated new survey data on the economic and social situa…
Mobilization in the European Public Sphere: The Struggle Over Genetically Modified Organisms
The objective of this study is to investigate the extent to which supporters and opponents at the European Union (EU) level strive to mobilize the public with regard the issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). To this end, it addresses two research questions: First, to which concepts do GMO opponents and supporters refer when seeking to mobilize the public? Second, do GMO opponents and supporters differ in the coherence of the concepts th…
Collective climate action and networked climate governance
Scholarship in International Relations has witnessed that the traditional concept of hierarchically organized global climate governance is joined by a network model of decentralized governance, which involves multiple actors. New actors performing networked climate governance include national governments, subnational organizations like cities, international organizations, corporations, epistemic communities, and civil society organizations. An in…
Political ideology and vaccination willingness: Implications for policy design
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11077-021-09428-0
Right-wing populist parties and environmental politics: Insights from the Austrian Freedom Party's support for the glyphosate ban
Why has the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria supported a total glyphosate ban proposed by the Social Democratic Party? We examine this research question and pursue two goals: first, to explain the specific empirical puzzle; second, to develop a general argument on the environmental policy profile of right-wing populist parties. We contend that certain environmental issues and the way that policymaking handles them provide this party f…
Investigating Ministry Names for Comparative Policy Analysis: Lessons from Energy Governance
This commentary contends that ministry names offer a valuable construct for furthering the state of comparative policy analysis. Using energy governance as an example, this study shows that ministries’ names are stable in some countries but subject to changes in others. Furthermore, there is variation in the ministries’ names over time. Creating or maintaining a ministry that explicitly mentions “energy” is interpreted as signaling enhanced polit…
Neglected Faces of Europeanization: The Differential Impact of the Eu on the Dismantling and Expansion of Domestic Policies
The objective of this article is to clarify the extent and the conditions under which the European Union (EU) induces changes in the policy arrangements of its member states. For an accurate measurement of our dependent variable, we distinguish between EU‐induced policy expansion and EU‐induced policy dismantling. We argue that the extent to which European requirements lead to an expansion or dismantling of national policy arrangements is crucial…
Hierarchy, networks, or markets: How does the EU shape environmental policy adoptions within and beyond its borders
In this study we scrutinize the strength of the European Union s external governance in the area of environmental policy. We explore whether accession candidates and third countries adopted European environmental legislation along with the member states. In doing so, we focus on Community laws that limit nitrogen oxides in the emissions into the air from large combustion plants, and introduce the European ecolabel scheme and environmental impact …
Changing Economic Openness for Environmental Policy Convergence: When Can Bilateral Trade Agreements Induce Convergence of Environmental Regulation
Citizens' concerns about (international) environmental protection standards are of increasing importance to governments in industrially advanced, high-regulating countries. In almost any proposal for a trade agreement, countries with low environmental regulation standards are required to introduce higher policy standards in exchange for high-regulating countries dismantling their trade barriers and granting access to their domestic markets. Low-r…
Politikwandel und seine Messung in der vergleichenden Staatstätigkeitsforschung: Konzeptionelle Probleme und mögliche Alternativen
Public Policy
Complexity, institutions and public policy: Agile decision-making in a turbulent world, by Graham Room
Risk Regulation in Europe: Assessing the Application of the Precautionary Principle
"The publication aims to familiarize students of public policy with the precautionary principle, which plays a vital role in the European Union's approach toward regulating risks. The precautionary principle contends that policy makers should refrain from actions having a suspected risk of causing harm to the public and/or the environment. However, the precautionary principle only provides guidance to policy makers but does not prescribe specific…
Women’s Parliamentary Representation in the Czech Republic: Does Preference Voting Matter
The U-shaped trajectory of women’s parliamentary representation in Central and Eastern Europe over the post-communist era has generated interest among scholars and non-governmental organizations. One particularly interesting case of the recent increase in women’s parliamentary representation can be found in the Czech Republic. After the initial post-communist drop in representation, the proportion of female members of parliament (MPs) hovered aro…
External dimensions of E uropean environmental policy: An analysis of environmental treaty ratification by third states
The E uropean U nion has become an important leader in international environmental affairs – particularly through the negotiation of multilateral environmental agreements ( MEAs ) with favourable terms. In this article, EU environmental leadership is studied from a new perspective, focusing on the ratification stage of environmental regime formation. Specifically, it investigates whether the EU is also capable of motivating third states to join i…
Registration Fees for Same-Sex Unions, Local Party Politics and Societal Demand
This article addresses registration fees for same-sex unions and the number of registered gay couples in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. In contrast to the other 15 German states, in Baden-Württemberg each administrative district decides independently about the level of registration fees. Consequently, there is not only considerable variation of the number of registered gay couples across the individual administrative units, but also among…
How the Eu Handles Uncertain Risks: Understanding the Role of the Precautionary Principle
The European Union (EU) has adopted the precautionary principle (PP) as a legal principle for dealing with uncertain risks; that is situations in which the relationship between activities and their potential hazard cannot be established. While the PP's application has been defined by the European Commission and EU case law, political considerations ultimately determine whether and how it is invoked. This article reviews the literature on the PP's…
Domestic politics and the diffusion of international policy innovations: How does accommodation happen
The EU in Crisis: Advancing the Debate
The European Union (EU) has experienced an unprecedented economic and financial crisis since 2007, the effects of which form the object of analysis in this Special Issue. In particular, it addresses the questions of whether and how the crisis has served as an obstacle or an opportunity for further integration. It concentrates on two broad types of implications for the EU that are central elements of theories on integration and policy and public o…
Agricultural Biotechnology in C entral and E astern E urope: Determinants of Cultivation Bans
By the joining of the E uropean U nion ( EU ), the C entral and E astern E uropean states had to align their agricultural biotechnology regulations to EU standards. In some cases, this meant the adoption of stricter regulations such as for the co‐existence of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) and conventional crops. In other cases, harmonisation with EU rules entailed the need to give up more restrictive national regulation, for example: to…
Policy Integration und verwandte Ansätze: Möglichkeiten der Theorieintegration
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Economic Voting under Coalition Governments: Evidence from Germany
This article analyzes the impact of economic voting in federal elections for the German parliament. It combines theories of coalition politics and cabinet decision making—like prime ministerial government, collective cabinet decision making and ministerial discretion—with theoretical approaches on voting behavior to test which cabinet actor voters reward for improved economic conditions. The empirical results, which are based on data from German …
Giving less by doing more? Dynamics of social policy expansion and dismantling in 18 OECD countries
Protection against social risks is generally popular among voters and should enjoy the benefits of institutional inertia. Yet retrenchment occurs rather frequently in advanced welfare states without this systematically leading to electoral punishment. We solve this paradox by, first, arguing that governments can avoid the blame of retrenchment by pursuing a strategy of ‘expansionary dismantling’ where new policies and instruments are used to comp…
Absorption of Regional Funds: A Comparative Analysis
This article evaluates the determinants of the absorption performance of European Union Member States with regard to the European Regional Development Fund's (ERDF) 2000–06 programming period. Theoretically grounded in Europeanization research and studies of regional governance, the empirical analysis concentrates on the ERDF absorption performance of 25 Member States at the end of the programming period in 2008. The results of Tobit models show …
GMO-free regions in Europe: An analysis of diffusion patterns
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been a controversial issue in the European Union (EU). A growing number of member states and regions within the member states oppose the EU’s agro-biotechnology policy, resulting in a complex multi-level structure of policy-making. This study is interested in the regional opposition to GMOs and scrutinises the determinants of membership in the European Network of GMO-free Regions. In terms of theory, thi…
Rival Regulatory Regimes in International Environmental Politics: The Case of Biosafety
The literature on international regulatory regimes has highlighted how rival standards can create different points of convergence. Scholarly attention has also focused on how the European Union ( EU ) and the United States (USA) attempt to ‘export’ their environmental standards internationally. Here, we explore the effectiveness of these attempts by means of third states' decisions to ratify the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention o…
Contesting climate change: Mapping the political debate in Poland
We examine the effectiveness of norm diffusion by the European Union (EU) using the example of the climate debate in Poland. To explore the relationship between the salience of an issue and the internalisation of the externally initiated debate, we analyse both quantitatively and qualitatively votes and speeches in the Polish parliament. We find that the Members of Parliament regardless of their placement on the right–left dimension or their part…
Partisanship, Ministers, and Biotechnology Policy
Research in public policy and political economy has provided many insights in the evolution of public resistance against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the last two decades. But how does the partisan composition of a government, its programmatic orientation and the allocation of cabinet offices affect policy making in this specific area? We argue that the regulation of GMOs is determined by the ideological orientation of governments and…
Import Restrictions and Food‐Safety Regulations: Insight from Brazil
Since the 1980s, developing countries have been implementing radical reforms to increase their competitiveness in the global economy. While the increased export orientation has had positive effects on economic growth in many countries, it has also left them susceptible to external attempts to influence domestic regulatory standards. In this article, we explore a specific case that illustrates how domestic actors cope with such external pressures …
Collective climate action and networked climate governance
Scholarship in International Relations has witnessed that the traditional concept of hierarchically organized global climate governance is joined by a network model of decentralized governance, which involves multiple actors. New actors performing networked climate governance include national governments, subnational organizations like cities, international organizations, corporations, epistemic communities, and civil society organizations. An in…
Co-governing common goods: Interaction patterns of private and public actors
This article addresses co-governance which can be defined as a dynamic interaction between public and private actors to secure the provision of common goods. Which types of relationship between public and private actors exist? Do the forms of co-governance change over time? When is the relationship between public and private actors cooperative, when is it competitive, and when do we witness conflictual relationships? These research questions lie …
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