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Environmental Policy Performance Revisited: Designing Effective Policies for Green Markets.
- Source :
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Political Studies . Jun2012, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p399-418. 20p. 6 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Studies of environmental policy performance tend to concentrate on the impact of particular policy institutions or of single policy instruments. However, environmental policies most often consist of a package of policy instruments. Further, these studies pay no or very little attention to policy instruments directed at the demand side of the market. Therefore this article develops a policy typology for government intervention aimed at creating green markets. The typology distinguishes between four types of policy based on the balance between the supply-side and demand-side policy instruments. On the basis of the typology, a hypothesis on their ability to expand green markets is generated and tested in a comparative analysis of the performance of organic food policies in Denmark, Sweden, the UK and the US, focusing on their impact on organic consumption. Our analysis demonstrates that cross-country variation in organic food consumption is explained by differences in the packages of policy instruments applied, controlling for numerous systemic and individual-level alternative explanations. The analysis suggests that for environmental and political reasons, governments should apply more demand-side instruments when introducing environmental policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00323217
- Volume :
- 60
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Political Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 74690773
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2011.00910.x