Short Circuiting Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Short Circuiting Policy write by Leah Cardamore Stokes. This book was released on 2020-03-18. Short Circuiting Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining clean energy laws in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Ohio over a thirty-year time frame, Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis. She tells the political history of our energy institutions, explaining how fossil fuel companies and electric utilities have promoted climate denial and delay. Stokes further explains the limits of policy feedback theory, showing the ways that interest groups drive retrenchment through lobbying, public opinion, political parties and the courts. More than a history of renewable energy policy in modern America, Short Circuiting Policy offers a bold new argument about how the policy process works, and why seeming victories can turn into losses when the opposition has enough resources to roll back laws.
Making Climate Policy Work
Making Climate Policy Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Climate Policy Work write by Danny Cullenward. This book was released on 2020-10-07. Making Climate Policy Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programs – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale. Danny Cullenward and David Victor show how the politics of creating and maintaining market-based policies render them ineffective nearly everywhere they have been applied. Reforms can help around the margins, but markets’ problems are structural and won’t disappear with increasing demand for climate solutions. Facing that reality requires relying more heavily on smart regulation and industrial policy – government-led strategies – to catalyze the transformation that markets promise, but rarely deliver.
Global Warming Gridlock
Global Warming Gridlock - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Warming Gridlock write by David G. Victor. This book was released on 2011-03-10. Global Warming Gridlock available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David G. Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming. Victor argues that a radical rethinking of global warming policy is required and shows how to make international law on global warming more effective. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking.
Short Circuiting Policy
Short Circuiting Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Short Circuiting Policy write by Leah Cardamore Stokes. This book was released on 2020. Short Circuiting Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Short Circuiting Policy examines clean energy policies to understand why US states are not on track to meet the climate crisis. After two decades of leadership, American states are slipping in their commitment to transitioning away from dirty fossil fuels towards cleaner energy sources, including wind and solar. I argue that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why US states have stopped expanding and even started weakening their renewable energy policies. Fossil fuel companies and electric utilities played a key role in spreading climate denial. Now, they have turned to climate delay, working to block clean energy policies from passing or being implemented, and driving retrenchment. Clean energy advocates typically lack sufficient power to overcome electric utilities' opposition to climate policy. Short Circuiting Policy builds on policy feedback theory, showing the conditions under which retrenchment is more likely. Depending on their relative political influence, interest groups will work to drive retrenchment either directly by working with legislators, their staff and regulators; or, indirectly through the parties, the public and the courts. I also argue that policies likely effects are not easy to predict-an effect I term "the fog of enactment." But overtime, federated interest groups can learn to anticipate policies' consequences through networks that cross states-lines. Examining US energy policy over the past century, and Texas, Kansas, Arizona and Ohio's clean energy laws over the past two decades, I show how opponents have thwarted progress on climate policy"--
Short-circuit Currents
Short-circuit Currents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Short-circuit Currents write by Jürgen Schlabbach. This book was released on 2005-10-17. Short-circuit Currents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Short-circuit Currents gives an overview of the components within power systems with respect to the parameters needed for short-circuit current calculation.
