The political economy of international environmental agreements: a survey

Leo Wangler (), Juan-Carlos Altamirano-Cabrera () and Hans-Peter Weikard

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2013, vol. 13, issue 3, 387-403

Abstract: This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process impacts different stages of agreement formation and stability. We distinguish the rules defined during pre-negotiations that govern negotiations, ratification and implementation. Strategic delegation and lobbying are directly relevant during the negotiation and ratification phases. Implementation, the choice of policy instruments at the national level, will also be impacted by lobbying and indirectly influence negotiations. We find that the basic theoretical framework for the analysis of international environmental agreements is largely unrelated to empirical approaches. Furthermore, we observe that models of the political process of agreement formation, like for example sequential game models, are yet to be developed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Keywords: International environmental agreements; Environmental policy-making; Strategic delegation; Interest groups; Free-rider incentives; Public goods experiments; Coalition formation; Coalition stability; Determinants of international environmental cooperation; D72; D62; C72; H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s10784-012-9196-8

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