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- Title
Beyond (and Within) City Limits: Climate Policy in an Intergovernmental System.
- Authors
Simon Rosenthal, Cindy; Rosenthal, James A.; Moore, Jonathan D.; Smith, Jamie
- Abstract
This analysis explores the role of city-level and state-level variables to explain why some cities make more progress on climate-related policy implementation than others. Using multilevel modeling, we find little support for the influence of state factors on local government leadership among the 812 cities in the dataset, but local government institutional and community variables are strongly associated with climate policy initiatives. We argue for a rethinking of the notion of the limited and constrained city and suggest that, in the realm of climate protection and environmental policy, cities are leading a bottom-up federalism. Moreover, where some political analysts and scholars have argued that climate protection and environmental policies may not be economically rational for cities to pursue, we theorize that cities are acting locally to further their self-interest in an increasingly global economy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GOVERNMENT policy on climate change; URBAN studies; POLITICAL leadership; FEDERAL-city relations; FEDERAL government of the United States
- Publication
Review of Policy Research, 2015, Vol 32, Issue 5, p538
- ISSN
1541-132X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ropr.12136