Neoliberal climate policy

From Market Fetishism to the Developmental State

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4920409
AutoresRobert Macneil (0000-0003-3700-2846, University of Ottawa, autor de correspondencia), Marisa Paterson (0000-0002-0007-2229, University of Ottawa), Matthew Paterson
Año2012
Volumen21
Número2
Páginas230-247
Fecha de publicación2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644016.2012.651900
OpenAlexW2033509359
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas42
Referencias citadas40

There is a broad literature that suggests that neoliberalism is the predominant force structuring climate change policy. However, analyses that focus only on the creation of carbon markets as neoliberalism's effect on climate policy are too restricted. Focusing on the United States, as the paradigmatic neoliberal state, it is demonstrated that, because neoliberal states must nevertheless intervene to promote accumulation, and because system-wide regulation of greenhouse gases has been impossible to achieve, the United States has developed a range of alternative means by which to pursue emissions reductions. These means derive from the ‘strategic selectivities’ (or historical path-dependencies) inherent in federal policy development in the United States. The focus is on three ways that this has occurred: the growth of sub-national regulation; the use of executive authority; and in particular the deployment of a dense network of research and development infrastructure through which the development of new energy and environmental technologies is supported

Climate change · Economic system · Economics · Fetishism · Greenhouse gas · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Software deployment · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Ecology