1st Edition
Climate Politics in Small European States
Introduction: Climate politics in Small European States
Neil Carter, Conor Little and Diarmuid Torney
1. Does size matter? Comparing the party politics of climate change in Australia and Norway
Fay Madeleine Farstad
2. Drivers of political parties’ climate policy preferences: lessons from Denmark and Ireland
Robert Ladrech and Conor Little
3. Creative and disruptive elements in Norway´s climate policy mix: the small-state perspective
Stefan Ćetković and Jon Birger Skjærseth
4. Divergent neighbors: corporatism and climate policy networks in Finland and Sweden
Antti Gronow, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, Marcus Carson and Christofer Edling
5. The politics of carbon taxation: how varieties of policy style matter
Mikael Skou Andersen
6. The Czech Republic’s approach to the EU 2030 climate and energy framework
Mats Braun
7. Climate laws in small European states: symbolic legislation and limits of diffusion in Ireland and Finland
Diarmuid Torney
Biography
Prof. Neil Carter is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of York. He is the author of The Politics of the Environment (3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Dr. Conor Little is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. His research on climate politics focuses on the policy preferences and policy influence of political parties.
Dr. Diarmuid Torney is Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. He co-founded DCU’s MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society and he is the author of European Climate Leadership in Question: Policies toward China and India (MIT Press, 2015).
