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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Political Strategies to Overcome Climate Policy Obstructionism
Contributor:
Srivastav, Sugandha;
Rafaty, Ryan
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023
Published in:
Perspectives on Politics, 21 (2023) 2, Seite 640-650
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s1537592722002080
ISSN:
1537-5927;
1541-0986
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Great socioeconomic transitions bring about the demise of certain industries and the rise of others. The losers of the transition tend to deploy a variety of tactics to obstruct change. We develop a political-economy model of interest group competition and garner evidence of tactics deployed in the global climate movement. From this we deduce a set of strategies for how the climate movement competes against entrenched hydrocarbon interests. Five strategies for overcoming obstructionism emerge: (1) appeasement, which involves compensating the losers; (2) co-optation, which seeks to instigate change by working with incumbents; (3) institutionalism, which involves changes to public institutions to support decarbonization; (4) antagonism, which creates reputational or litigation costs to inaction; and (5) countervailance, which makes low-carbon alternatives more competitive. We argue that each strategy addresses the problem of obstructionism through a different lens, reflecting a diversity of actors and theories of change within the climate movement. The choice of which strategy to pursue depends on the institutional context.</jats:p>