A01=Werner Schafer
Advancing
Author_Werner Schafer
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631636220
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2012
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explains under which conditions the European Union adopts ambitious domestic climate policies. It presents a theoretical framework that combines insights from rational choice institutionalism and the constructivist literature on political rhetoric. Its main argument is that ambitious sectoral climate policies emerge in situations in which the opponents of such policies run out of socially sustainable arguments to defend their positions. The framework is applied to five case studies of EU climate policy-making concerning cars, buildings, the EU’s emissions trading system (EU ETS), the promotion of renewable energy sources as well as agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
Werner Schäfer holds degrees in Social Studies from Harvard College and in International Affairs from the University of St. Gallen and the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris. He completed his PhD in political science at the University of St. Gallen and works for an international management consultancy in Munich and Berlin.
