Global Warming Policy in Japan and Britain: Interactions Between Institutions and Issue Characteristics
Shizuka Oshitani
Abstract
This book attempts a systematic comparison of Japanese and British climate policy and politics. Focusing on institutional contrasts between Japan and Britain in terms of corporatist or pluralist characteristics of government-industry relations and decision-making and implementation styles, it examines how and to what extent institutions explain climate policy in the two countries. In doing this, the book explores how climate policy is shaped by the interplay of nationally specific institutional factors and universal constraints on actors, which emanate from characteristics of the global warmin ... More
Keywords: climate policy, government-industry relations, decision-making, institutions, institutional factors, global warming, corporatist institutional characteristics, sustainable development, Japan, Britain
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719069383 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719069383.001.0001 |
