ORCID Profile
0000-0002-0739-1812
Current Organisation
Nottingham Trent University
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.POLSOC.2012.10.001
Abstract: The scale of the ambition to decouple emissions growth from energy consumption runs counter to decades of debates and literatures on the limits of government. Transport biofuels are an early and influential case of the policy capacity challenge in the transition to low-carbon economies. The case stands analytically for the policy-maker’s dilemma of maintaining long-term policy goals as credible commitments, despite the flexibility and adaptability in policy-making required to achieve them under high political, technological and market uncertainty. This paper compares US and EU biofuels policy processes in these terms. It reveals an intertemporal choice embedded in biofuels policies which tests the capacity to account for future benefits from a low carbon future in current policy processes if the pathway to their achievement is uncertain and politically contested in the implementation phase, then future benefits may be heavily discounted, shortening policy-maker horizons and rendering the transition process politically vulnerable.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-08-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2007
Abstract: The development of the Open Method of Coordination, agreement on the Lisbon Agenda and EU enlargement offered the prospect of a new and substantial EU social policy agenda. This article considers EU social and cohesion policies in the context of the recent negotiation of the EU budget for 2007—13. We find the Commission's wish to redistribute EU spending in favour of these policy areas and new member states was thwarted by key political features of EU budget making: CAP spending levels which are downwardly sticky institutional arrangements which provide for budget making as, at best, a zero-sum game and the preferences of contributor member states in the EU-15 to contain overall spending while preserving their net budget positions. Questions are thus raised as to the ability of the EU to make any progress, from a budgetary perspective, on the social and cohesion policy agenda in an enlarged EU.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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