Understanding the Relationship between Subnational and National Climate Change Politics in the United States: Toward a Theory of Boomerang Federalism

Dana R Fisher
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Dana R Fisher: Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, 2112 Art-Sociology, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Environment and Planning C, 2013, vol. 31, issue 5, 769-784

Abstract: In this paper, I look at how subnational policies in the United States are interacting with policy making at the federal level to address the issue of global climate change. I focus on a coordinated attempt to get the national government to fund local efforts to address climate change. Although local climate initiatives in the US were successfully translated into a national policy to support these local efforts, their implementation through hybrid arrangements that are being formed between business and local governmental actors will potentially create additional challenges to federal policy making. I introduce the notion of boomerang federalism, which builds on the extant research on federalism and vertical policy integration, to explain the process through which local efforts mobilize initiatives at the national level that, in turn, provide support for the local initiatives themselves. Reviewing the implementation process of this effort, I discuss the ways that businesses are working alongside local governments to address climate change.

Keywords: climate politics; federalism; multilevel governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1068/c11186

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