Environmental policy performance revisited: designing effective policies for green markets
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Environmental policy performance revisited : designing effective policies for green markets. / Daugbjerg, Carsten; Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar.
In: Political Studies, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2012, p. 399-418.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental policy performance revisited
T2 - designing effective policies for green markets
AU - Daugbjerg, Carsten
AU - Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar
N1 - First published online: 18 November 2011
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Studies of environmental policy performance tend to concentrate on the impact of particular policy institutions or of single policy instruments. However, environmental policies most often consist of a package of policy instruments. Further, these studies pay no or very little attention to policy instruments directed at the demand side of the market. Therefore this article develops a policy typology for government intervention aimed at creating green markets. The typology distinguishes between four types of policy based on the balance between the supply-side and demand-side policy instruments. On the basis of the typology, a hypothesis on their ability to expand green markets is generated and tested in a comparative analysis of the performance of organic food policies in Denmark, Sweden, the UK and the US, focusing on their impact on organic consumption. Our analysis demonstrates that cross-country variation in organic food consumption is explained by differences in the packages of policy instruments applied, controlling for numerous systemic and individual-level alternative explanations. The analysis suggests that for environmental and political reasons, governments should apply more demand-side instruments when introducing environmental policies.
AB - Studies of environmental policy performance tend to concentrate on the impact of particular policy institutions or of single policy instruments. However, environmental policies most often consist of a package of policy instruments. Further, these studies pay no or very little attention to policy instruments directed at the demand side of the market. Therefore this article develops a policy typology for government intervention aimed at creating green markets. The typology distinguishes between four types of policy based on the balance between the supply-side and demand-side policy instruments. On the basis of the typology, a hypothesis on their ability to expand green markets is generated and tested in a comparative analysis of the performance of organic food policies in Denmark, Sweden, the UK and the US, focusing on their impact on organic consumption. Our analysis demonstrates that cross-country variation in organic food consumption is explained by differences in the packages of policy instruments applied, controlling for numerous systemic and individual-level alternative explanations. The analysis suggests that for environmental and political reasons, governments should apply more demand-side instruments when introducing environmental policies.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2011.00910.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2011.00910.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60
SP - 399
EP - 418
JO - Political Studies
JF - Political Studies
SN - 0032-3217
IS - 2
ER -
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