Robert Macneil

Neoliberalism and Climate Policy in the United States

From market fetishism to the developmental state

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the political economy of US climate policy, explaining how the drive to promote accumulation in green markets has been translated under conditions of American neoliberalism, where the state struggles to find a stable and legitimate role in the economy, and where environmental and industrial policy are contentious topics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780367878764
• ISBN-10: 0367878763
• Artikelnr.: 58439641

Autorenporträt

Robert MacNeil is Lecturer in Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction
1 US climate policy, neoliberalism & the developmental state
2 Conceptualizing neoliberal climate policy in the US
Part II The developmental state vs. the deregulatory state
3 The American developmental state: from confederation to
neoliberalism
4 Neoliberalism and environmental regulation
Part III The nature and function of US climate policy
5 Pull policies: Alternative routes to climate regulation
6 Push policies: The developmental state and clean energy
Part IV Assessing neoliberal climate policy in the US
7 The functionality and sustainability of current US
climate policy
8 The future of neoliberal climate policy in the US
9 Concluding reflections
Afterword: President Trump's Climate Policy