The Comparative Politics of Carbon Taxation
By K. Harrison. 2010
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Cap and trade and carbon taxes offer the prospect of reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a lower cost to society than conventional regulation. Between these two market-based approaches, however, carbon taxes offer significant advantages, including transparency and predictability of costs, ease of implementation, and application to small and large sources alike. This article thus seeks to inform our understanding of the conditions under which carbon taxes are politically viable by comparing the experience of four jurisdictions: Finland and Denmark, which adopted carbon taxes; Germany, which adopted a related energy tax; and Canada, which rejected a carbon tax. The cases highlight the role of policy entrepreneurs in advancing academic theories about environmental taxation. However, the impact of those ideas was conditional on voters' attention to either the environmental or economic benefits of carbon taxes. Even then, business tended to be more attentive, thus winning tax concessions relative to household...
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations
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- Public Attitudes toward Climate Science and Climate Policy in Federal Systems: Canada and the United States Compared† (2012, background): “In the North American and European contexts, previous research has highlighted the importance of public acceptability as a condition for the political success of such market instruments (Dresner, Dunne, Clinch, & Beuermann, 2006; Harrison, 2010, 2012).”
- A Tale of Two Taxes: The Fate of Environmental Tax Reform in Canada (2012, methodology): “That said, industry has often won concessions as well on environmental taxes, which seldom “wear the clothing of Pigou” (Ciocirlan & Yandle, 2003; Harrison, 2010a).”