Beyond (and Within) City Limits
Climate Policy in an Intergovernmental System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4075256 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cindy Simon Rosenthal (University of Oklahoma), James A Rosenthal (University of Oklahoma), Jonathan D Moore (0000-0001-7288-9804, University of Oklahoma), Jamie Smith (0000-0003-0097-6102, University of Oklahoma) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 538-555 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Policy Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ropr.12136 |
| OpenAlex | W1844687262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 31 |
This analysis explores the role of city-level and state-level variables to explain why some cities make more progress on climate-related policy implementation than others. Using multilevel modeling, we find little support for the influence of state factors on local government leadership among the 812 cities in the dataset, but local government institutional and community variables are strongly associated with climate policy initiatives. We argue for a rethinking of the notion of the limited and constrained city and suggest that, in the realm of climate protection and environmental policy, cities are leading a bottom-up federalism. Moreover, where some political analysts and scholars have argued that climate protection and environmental policies may not be economically rational for cities to pursue, we theorize that cities are acting locally to further their self-interest in an increasingly global economy
Climate change · Climate policy · Economics · Federalism · Local government · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Conditions influencing City-level adaptation and mitigation
Explaining emission reductions in cities
The local tackling of global issues
Agenda-setting and policy leadership for municipal climate change adaptation
Factors contributing to climate adaptation lag in practice
Diffusion of global climate policy
Many roads to Paris
Urban biodiversity and green space maintenance
Ten years after Copenhagen
Intergovernmental Influence, Managerial Turnover, and City Energy Policy Adoption
Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions
Institutional Accountability of Nonstate Actors in the UNFCCC
City Limits
Cities and Climate Change
The Partisan Sort
Global climate policy
The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
Hierarchical linear models
The Metropolitan Revolution
Cities and the Creative Class
Policy Innovation, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Adoption of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Cities
Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature
The Adoption of Sustainable Development Policies and Techniques in U.S. Cities
Local Government Efforts to Promote the “Three Es” of Sustainable Development
Forms of Government and Climate Change Policies in US Cities
Local Politics in a Global Era
Does the American Public Support Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Participation and the Pursuit of Sustainability in U.S. Cities
Capacity to Sustain Sustainability
Bottom‐Up Federalism
Pillar Talk
Understanding Local Adoption and Implementation of Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Bottom-Up Activism
Models of E‐Government
Local E‐Government in the United States
Four Systems of Policy, Politics, and Choice
Policy Diffusion
Typologies, Taxonomies, and the Benefits of Policy Classification
Transnational Networks and Global Environmental Governance
Local Institutions and the Politics of Urban Growth
The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion
Cities and the Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change
States on Steroids
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |