THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: A Public Choice Approach to Market Instruments - Hardcover

Dijkstra, Bouwe R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858989647 ISBN 13: 9781858989648

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Why is it that market instruments have not been used to their full potential in environmental policy? Using a public choice perspective, this book critically analyzes the political economy of environmental policy with special emphasis on the role of powerful interest groups which have blocked the introduction of market instruments. Drawing on new case studies of market instruments, Dr. Dijkstra examines the attitude of interest groups and how they influence environmental policy. He discusses the preferences of shareholders and workers in the polluting industry, the environmental movement and the environmental bureaucracy. He then investigates the circumstances under which market instruments will have a low or no probability of being accepted, assuming that they are welfare-maximizing. The Political Economy of Environmental Policy will be a welcome addition to the existing literature and will be of interest to environmental and ecological economists, policy makers, political scientists and public choice scholars.

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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1858989647
• ISBN 13: 9781858989648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392