Policy innovation in a changing climate: Sources, patterns and effects
By A. Jordan, D. Huitema. 2014
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Abstract States have been widely criticized for failing to advance the international climate regime. Many observers now believe that a “new” climate governance is emerging through transnational and/or local forms of action that will eventually plug the resulting governance gaps. Yet states, which remain oddly absent from most discussions of the “new” governance, will remain key players as governance becomes more polycentric. This paper introduces a special issue that explores the ability of states to rise to these interconnected challenges through the analytical prism of policy innovation. It reveals that policy innovation is much more multi-dimensional than is often thought; it encompasses three vital activities: invention (centering on the ‘source’ of new policy elements), diffusion (that produces different ‘patterns’ of policy adoption), and the evaluation of the ‘effects’ that such innovations create in reality. The papers, which range from qualitative case studies to large ‘n’ quantitative studies, offer new insights into the varied roles that states play in relation to all three. They show, for instance that: the policy activity of states has risen dramatically in the past decade; that state innovation is affected to similar degrees by internal and external factors; and that policies that offer flexibility to target groups on how to meet policy goals are most effective but that voluntary reporting requirements are ineffective. This paper draws upon these and many other insights to offer a much more nuanced reflection on the future of climate governance; one that deservedly puts states at the front and center of analysis.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations
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- Innovations in climate policy: the politics of invention, diffusion, and evaluation (2014, background): “Our third and final objective (addressed in our concluding contribution – Jordan and Huitema 2014a) is to reflect critically on these cases and others (Jordan and Huitema 2014b) to formulate a new research agenda to guide this rapidly expanding area of scholarship and practice.”
- Applying institutional theory to the low-carbon energy transition (2016, unknown): “These entrepreneurs include academics, industry and professional associations, corporations, academics and NGOs, as well as individual politicians and government officials who are willing to promote change [119].”
- Climate policy innovation:The adoption and diffusion of adaptation policies across Europe (2014, background): “For the most part, the existing literature on climate policy innovation has a distinctive bias toward mitigation (Jordan and Huitema, 2014a,b). The second in turn, is to contribute to the policy innovation literature by exploring the effects adaptation policy adoption and diffusion is having on coun”