Persuasive innovators for environmental policy
Green Business Influence Through Technology-Based Arguing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4329348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Hofmann (0000-0002-5639-098X, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-69 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2023.2178515 |
| OpenAlex | W4322207988 |
| Language | IT |
| References cited | 40 |
Green industries and companies provide crucial political support for ambitious environmental policy. In this article, I examine through which mechanisms green business interests influence international environmental negotiations. I theorize technology-based arguing as an influence mechanism that builds on combined technological and discursive power and can outstrip relational and structural business power rooted in material resources. I probe these propositions in a process-tracing case study of new wastewater regulations for ships in the Baltic Sea negotiated in the Helsinki Commission and International Maritime Organization. I find that green business built, expanded, and sustained state support for ambitious nutrient removal standards by persuasively arguing that advanced treatment was feasible. Provision of tangible evidence of technology development, availability, and uptake undermined the influence of reluctant and materially superior business interests. I conclude that even small green business actors can facilitate ambitious environmental policy when communication channels between innovators and policymakers are strong
Business · Commission · Economics · Industrial organization · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Coastal and Marine Management · Law · Risk Perception and Management · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems
Structural power and political science in the post-crisis era
Winning coalitions for climate policy
Technology as a driver of climate and energy politics
The Sociology of an Actor-Network
Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics
Designing Case Studies
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Regime resistance and accommodation
When Arguments Prevail Over Power
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics
The Influence of Business and Industry NGOs in the Negotiation of the Kyoto Mechanisms
Globalization, Competition, and Convergence
Comparative Process Tracing
Containing the Atom
Deliberately Changing the Discourse
Studying Global Environmental Meetings to Understand Global Environmental Governance
Sociotechnical matters
The interest-based explanation of international environmental policy
Let's Argue
States and markets in global environmental governance
The developmental state in global regulation
Exploring the framing power of NGOs in global climate politics
Climate governance, policy entrepreneurs and small states
Multilevel business power in environmental politics
Transnational actors in environmental politics
Political strategy and climate policy
Selecting Appropriate Cases When Tracing Causal Mechanisms
Capital Strikes as a Corporate Political Strategy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |