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Abel, Dennis ORCID: 0000-0001-6220-2511 (2021). The diffusion of climate policies among German municipalities. J. Public Policy, 41 (1). S. 111 - 137. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1469-7815

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Abstract

The German government established a funding scheme for local climate policy in 2008. The translation of this programme into climate action varies between municipalities. This article studies the drivers and barriers for the diffusion of the programme among German municipalities. A major aim is to disentangle the diffusion effects across different steps within the policy cycle by employing Event History Analysis and spatial panel autoregressive models. Geographical proximity, party channels and transnational city networks are predictors of the diffusion process. Differences in diffusion effects between policy adoption and substantial policy output indicate that emulation as well as learning influence policy activity. Furthermore, increasing deployment of solar photovoltaic systems in neighbouring municipalities is associated with an intensification of climate policy in the focal municipality. The absence of similar effects for other renewable energy technologies hints at the conditional nature of policy learning with respect to the policy-makers' vote- and policy-seeking behaviour.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Abel, Dennis UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-2511 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-565391
DOI:	10.1017/S0143814X19000199
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Public Policy
Volume:	41
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 111 - 137
Date:	2021
Publisher:	CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	CAMBRIDGE
ISSN:	1469-7815
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ENVIRONMENTAL-POLICY; MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE; GLOBAL DIFFUSION; CITIES; INNOVATION; MODELS; STATES; INTERDEPENDENCE; CONVERGENCE; REINVENTION Multiple languages Political Science; Public Administration Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56539