Roger Karapin

Political Opportunities for Climate Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 743g
• ISBN-13: 9781107074392
• ISBN-10: 1107074398
• Artikelnr.: 44034266

Autorenporträt

Roger Karapin is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is the editor-in-chief of Polity.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and overview
2. Climate policies in the United States
3. Theories of climate policy
4. The structural theory applied to the cases
5. Causes of climate policies in the fifty states
6. Air-pollution and energy policy making in California (the 1940s to the 1980s)
7. Climate policy making in California (the 2000s to the present)
8. Energy and climate policy making in New York State
9. Energy and climate policy making by the federal government
10. Conclusions - political opportunities for climate policy in the United States.