Rational lobbying and EU climate policy

Gullberg, Anne Therese

doi:10.1007/s10784-008-9067-5

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“…69. Arts 1998;Newell 2000;Gullberg 2008. terviewees recognized the importance of networks, in particular informal networks: "what you see is just the tip of the iceberg." Likewise, they tended to assess the importance of their competitors by looking at the way they are connected to others.…”

Section: The Cases Of Forestry and Genetic Resourcesmentioning

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Multi-Forum Non-State Actors: Navigating the Regime Complexes for Forestry and Genetic Resources

Orsini¹

2013

Global Environmental Politics

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This research brings together studies of non-state actors (NSAs) in environmental negotiations, transnational networks, and institutional fragmentation, to shed light on the influence of NSAs on policy-making in regime complexes. It presents a new analytical framework with a series of deductive assumptions about the influence of “multi-forum” NSAs, as compared with “single forum” NSAs. Multi-forum NSAs cover several elements of a regime complex, and are thereby able to follow and potentially influence fragmented institutional processes. Focusing on two cases of fragmented environmental governance—forestry and access to genetic resources—the analysis provides a quantitative (statistics, network analysis) and qualitative (interviews) testing ground for the proposed framework. Because of their considerable material, organizational and ideational resources, and long-term engagement, multi-forum NSAs have greater access to the negotiations and may become central players. The strategies such NSAs adopt can further the integration of regime complexes when they undertake forum linking, or push towards further fragmentation when they undertake forum shopping or forum shifting.

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Section: The Cases Of Forestry and Genetic Resourcesmentioning

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Multi-Forum Non-State Actors: Navigating the Regime Complexes for Forestry and Genetic Resources

Orsini¹

2013

Global Environmental Politics

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“…Such application of rational choice theory to green industries has not previously been undertaken, and this gap between theory and practice has only recently been recognized (Mueller, ). As Svendsen and Vesterdal (), Coen () and Gullberg () note, rational choice theory has in general not yet been successfully applied. Other authors such as Tietenberg and Lewis () and Daugbjerg and Svendsen () note that, with respect to environmental regulation and green industries in general, the debate has until now rested largely on economic theory without regard to the political–administrative reality.…”

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Evaluating and Regulating the Impacts of Lobbying in theEU? The Case Study of Green Industries

Svendsen

2011

Env Pol Gov

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How should we evaluate and regulate the impacts of lobbying in the European Union (EU)? The current lack of transparency around lobbying activities and the absence of formal regulation mean that a hidden lobbying problem may prevail. The tentative case study of green industries in the EU is illustrative. The wind turbine industry, for example, benefits from ambitious environmental target levels for greenhouse gas reductions that will increase the future market for renewable energy. In contrast, for example, no environmental target levels exist that increase the future market shares of organic farming. Rational choice theory suggests that lobbying and group size advantages can explain the observed difference in achieving environmental target levels. The EU may learn from the US legislation as a starting point for a best-practice solution and future evaluation of impacts of lobbying in the EU.

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“…The WWF European Policy Office (WWF EPO) considers their access to the Commission as better than other environmental organisations do. 15 This might be explained by the resources and staff of WWF EPO -which has more people and resources than the other environmental organisations (Gullberg 2008b). Two of the interviewees consider the MEPs to be more open than bureaucrats.…”

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Access to climate policy-making in the European Union and in Norway

Gullberg¹

2011

Environmental Politics

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Business and environmental organisations' perceived access to climate policy-making is compared in the multi-level, pluralist system of the EU and in Norway, a parliamentary system with strong corporatist traditions. The extent to which the interest groups consider gaining access to climate policy-making to be demanding of resources is compared in two different political systems. It is concluded that business organisations consider their access to climate policy-making both at the EU level and in Norway as better than environmental organisations do, and that interest groups at the EU level consider it to be more resource-demanding to gain access than interest groups seeking access in Norway do.

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Rational lobbying and EU climate policy

Abstract: Climate policy, Lobbying, European Union, Interest groups,

Cited by 29 publications

References 25 publications

Multi-Forum Non-State Actors: Navigating the Regime Complexes for Forestry and Genetic Resources

Multi-Forum Non-State Actors: Navigating the Regime Complexes for Forestry and Genetic Resources

Evaluating and Regulating the Impacts of Lobbying in theEU? The Case Study of Green Industries

Access to climate policy-making in the European Union and in Norway

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