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作者：Beck, Kasper Ingeman; Larsen, Mathias
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Brown University
摘要：China is simultaneously enacting a state-led financialization of governance and a prioritization of environmental objectives. Resultingly, dedicated state-backed green funds have grown in scale beyond US$70 billion. Drawing on interviews, policies, and financial databases, we examine these funds through policy document analysis, descriptive statistics, and three case studies. Tying together the literature on financialization and the green state we show how China's market-driven, government-gui...
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作者：Atiles, Jose; Whyte, David
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：Secrecy jurisdictions play a crucial role in the legal framework perpetuating climate change. This paper demonstrates how these jurisdictions sustain the dynamics of climate change by enabling capital accumulation rooted in environmental degradation. A regulatory approach to law and climate change must address the global nature of the legal structure that upholds exploitative and ecocidal social relationships. This paper argues that secrecy jurisdictions are a pivotal yet under-analyzed elemen...
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作者：Busemeyer, Marius R.; Stutzmann, Sophia; Tober, Tobias
作者单位：University of Konstanz; University of Konstanz
摘要：How do citizens perceive labor market risks related to digitalization and the green transition, and how do these risk perceptions translate into preferences for social policies? We address these questions in this paper by studying the policy preferences of individual workers on how governments should deal with the two labor market challenges of digitalization and the green transition. Employing novel cross-country comparative survey data including a vignette experiment for six advanced postind...
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作者：Fligstein, Neil
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：The crisis of climate change threatens the existence of human civilization. As social scientists, we should be positioned to theorize and study whether or not the existing system of global capitalism can find ways to ameliorate the crisis or is doomed to cause that collapse because of the overwhelming power of dominant economic interests. This paper argues that right now our dominant theories of capitalism, fail to give us sufficient leverage to understand how and if the energy transition will...
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作者：Steinbacher, Christina
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：Ineffective policies plague democratic systems and challenge their legitimacy. While existing research highlights the importance of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as de facto policymakers, our understanding of SLBs' aggregate effects on policy outcomes remains limited. Therefore, this paper proposes a shift in perspective, redirecting attention from the micro level toward institutional structures. It introduces the concept of street-level integration, which captures institutional structures e...
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作者：Ozel, Isik D.
作者单位：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：This paper focuses on climate coalitions and commitments in the Global South by comparing the cases of two Latin American countries, Chile and Mexico. Chile, once a laggard, emerged as a regional leader in climate policy in the early 2020s, while Mexico, a pioneer until the early 2010s, experienced a backlash and retreated. How can we make sense of these diverging trajectories? How and why do climate commitments emerge? This paper argues that robust commitments are only possible when driven by...
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作者：Beckert, Jens
作者单位：Max Planck Society
摘要：Despite decades of awareness, societies have failed to adequately respond to climate change, as evidenced by rising CO2 emissions and the continued dominance of fossil fuels in global energy consumption. This failure underscores the structural constraints of capitalist modernity, where economic and political incentives, as well as consumer behaviors, obstruct effective climate action. Beyond the challenge of mitigation, climate change raises pressing questions about its social and political co...
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作者：Babic, Milan; Mertens, Daniel
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; University Osnabruck
摘要：How can decarbonization governance endure under increasing geoeconomic distress? Global tensions threaten to divert financial and political resources from the green transition toward national security issues. However, we lack the analytical tools to assess decarbonization governance in this age of global rivalries. To address this gap, we develop an analytical framework to study the effects of geoeconomic shocks through investment, operational, and political channels. Using macro- and company-...
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作者：Shpaizman, Ilana
作者单位：Bar Ilan University
摘要：The budget is the outcome of bargaining between spenders and guardians. Most research on budgeting sees all spenders as a unitary actor. This article argues, instead, that there are different relations at play between guardians and each spending ministry. Based on a comparison between four social ministries in Israel, it shows that these relations differ in terms of the level of involvement of guardians in spenders' budgetary inputs and outputs, ranging from near-complete autonomy within exist...
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作者：Hochstetler, Kathryn
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：The idea of a green economy is one of the latest attempts to bridge the environment and development aims, with a focus on economic growth that makes it appealing to countries that still see a significant development gap to make up. Yet the green economy-most often studied in the Global North and made the target of explicit policy initiatives there, often with substantial public and private resources-also presents additional challenges for the diverse states and populations of the Global South....
