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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：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：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：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：Migone, Andrea; Chen, David; Evans, Bryan; Howlett, Alex; Howlett, Michael
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; University of Toronto; Toronto Metropolitan University
摘要：Lobbying is a multi-faceted phenomenon that involves interest groups and corporations contacting politicians and officials in order to try to achieve their policy preferences. While interest group policy-related lobbying has received a great deal of attention, studies of corporate contract lobbying are rarer even though this is a much older phenomenon. The article critically examines the commonly-held position that in the latter case lobbying is for winners; that is, that large scale corporate...
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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....
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作者：Kaplan, Rami; Levy, David L.
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston
摘要：Investor-driven climate governance (ICG) is premised on mobilizing finance to address climate change by leveraging investors to pressure companies to reduce emissions. Examining the rapid growth of ICG from an institutional political economy perspective, we argue that powerful financial and regulatory actors with varied interests coalesced to promote the discourse that climate risks equal financial risks, and to develop a finance-centered mechanism of climate governance. The flourishing field ...
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作者：Kus, Basak; Jackson, Gregory
作者单位：Wesleyan University; Free University of Berlin
摘要：Although political economy (PE) has long engaged with environmental issues, climate change has remained at the margins of the field until very recently. This article argues that fully addressing the transformative challenges brought up by climate change requires a fundamental rethinking of core PE concepts related to the state, distributional struggles, economic growth, varieties of capitalism, and markets. Rather than treating the state as a neutral regulator or market facilitator, we concept...
