The Politics of Regulatory Reform: 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments in Finland

Sairinen, Rauno

doi:10.1080/714000666

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“…Stakeholders become closely integrated into the design of policy instruments, and the authorities increasingly adopt a 'facilitating' role instead of acting as mere regulators (e.g. Hajer, 1995;Joas, 2001;Mol and Spaargaren, 2000;Sairinen, 2000;Schubert et al, 2000;Weale, 1992). From this point of view, the wider use of evaluations and the development of indicators can be seen as instruments enhancing the 'reflexivity' of modernization (Giddens, 1990) and 'deliberative democracy' (e.g.…”

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OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme

Lehtonen

2005

Evaluation

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The growing interest in evaluation as a new form of environmental governance stems from two developments: the movement towards New Public Management, and the search for new policy instruments for managing complexity, uncertainty and plurality of values in the pursuit of sustainable development. The former holds increasing accountability as the main purpose of evaluation, while the latter stresses the importance of learning. These approaches are often considered as mutually exclusive, but recent literature has underlined their complementary roles in policy making. This article examines to what extent the OECD Environmental Performance Review (EPR) programme has succeeded in combining the objectives of learning and accountability within a single evaluation framework. The EPRs have been relatively successful in avoiding the negative side-effects often associated with traditional performance measurement, but have usually failed to generate broad debate. Focusing on enhancing accountability through social learning would probably contribute to overcoming this problem.

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OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme

Lehtonen

2005

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“…Even environmental policy is moving towards marketbased policy instruments, but the Finnish wind power policy is made in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, as a part of energy policy. This Ministry has in general been more positive towards deregulation than the Ministry of the Environment (Sairinen, 2000(Sairinen, , 2003.…”

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Wind power policy options in finland – analysis of energy policy actors' views

Varho

2006

Eur. Env.

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Governments around the world are responding to the environmental problems caused by energy production by promoting wind power and other renewable forms of energy. Country specific political and ideological issues affect the choice of policy instruments. For example, although Finland and Sweden are already part of the same Nordic electricity market, they use different renewable energy policy instruments. The views about suitable policy instruments also vary within the Finnish energy sector. This paper is based on analysis of interviews with 25 energy sector actors that affect wind power policy in Finland. They used a number of process-oriented and valuebased criteria to evaluate policies. Emphasis on deregulated market conditions was found to be strong, and to limit methods that are considered appropriate for supporting wind power.

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“…Med dem syftar man både till att få en "bättre" förvaltning och till att legitimera förvaltningen och styrningen. (Sairinen 2000). Även om förvaltningen på ett sätt befullmäktigar (empower) medborgarna, kan man å andra sidan också skönja drag av det governmentality-begrepp som Foucault (1991) lanserade.…”

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“…Inom detta begrepp förstärks maktkoncentrationen till centralförvaltningen och dess omgivning och man utgår från behovet av samhällelig styrning. Ingripandet i männi-skornas liv fördjupas och utvidgas och maktbruket intensifieras (Sairinen 2000). Tanken om avtalsmässig verksamhet för fortsättningsvis utvecklingen framåt i samma riktning, men samtidigt får aktörerna på lägre nivå flera möjligheter att påverka och därmed tillförs också andra intressanta dimensioner.…”

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Lantbrukets och landsbygdens framtida roller

2004

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The Politics of Regulatory Reform: 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments in Finland

Cited by 17 publications

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OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme

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Wind power policy options in finland – analysis of energy policy actors' views

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