Advancing Comparative Climate Change Politics: Theory and Method

Mark Purdon

Global Environmental Politics, 2015, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-26

Abstract: Central to this special issue is the notion that the methods and conceptual tools of comparative politics can improve our understanding of global climate change politics. Building on recent advancements in the field of comparative environmental politics, the special issues offers a more comprehensive treatment of climate change politics in developed countries, emerging economies and least developed countries. In this introduction, I distil the key features of comparative politics, advocate for the more rigorous application of comparative methods in climate politics scholarship and highlight three groups of political factors--institutions, interests and ideas--that hold considerable promise in explaining climate change politics at the domestic level. The introduction concludes with an appeal to (re)think how international and domestic politics interact. Examples drawn from the articles assembled for this special issue are used to substantiate the claims made.

Keywords: climate change; policy; environmental politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 Q58 Y2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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