The Politics of Bounded Innovation

New' Environmental Policy Instruments in France

Bibliographic Data

ID4328495
AuthorsJoseph Szarka (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume12
Issue1
Pages93-114
Publication date2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/714000664
OpenAlexW1964206753
LanguageEN
Citations received9

French environmental policy-making has been characterised by a 'dual policy style' including both statist and meso-corporatist elements. This style translated into a multiplication of environmental institutions and a wide set of policy instruments, with hypothecated environmental charges and voluntary agreements being used as early as the 1960s and 1970s. From the late 1990s, a second phase of experimentation with 'new' instruments was conducted under the left-wing Jospin government. In particular, an innovative 'pollution tax' (the 'TGAP') sought to redefine the meso-corporatist bargain and reconfigure environmental institutions. However, the main reforms were stalemated by the opposition of economic actors and the electoral defeat of the left in 2002. Thus despite auspicious beginnings, the overall impact of 'new' environmental instruments in France has so far been limited in comparison to other OECD countries. Indeed, 'new' instruments have either been contained within long-standing policy paradigms, or excluded and largely ignored

Bounded function · Economics · Environmental policy · Environmental politics · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Mathematics

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