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New Policy Ideas and Old Policy Networks: Implementing Green Taxation in Scandinavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2004

CARSTEN DAUGBJERG  and
ANDERS BRANTH PEDERSEN
CARSTEN DAUGBJERG
Affiliation:
Political Science, University of Aarhus
ANDERS BRANTH PEDERSEN
Affiliation:
Policy Analysis, National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark
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Abstract

In the past, green taxation has become a widespread tool in pollution control in Europe. This new type of state intervention is based on an idea developed by environmental economists and diffused internationally through various channels of information exchange. We argue that the idea itself does not inform us about the way in which green taxation is designed because sectoral policy networks influence power relations, which in turn influence the actual design of green tax schemes. Thus, policy networks are the intervening variable explaining why an internationally diffused policy idea is implemented differently in various national settings. This argument is supported by a comparison of pesticide taxation and CO2 taxation in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Public Policy , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , August 2004 , pp. 219 - 249
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at NOPSA's XIII Nordic Political Science Congress, 15–17 August 2002, Aalborg University and at the 6th Nordic Conference on Environmental Social Sciences (NESS), June 12–14 2003, Turku, Finland. We thank the participants, in particular Susan Marton, for helpful comments. Furthermore, we appreciate constructive comments from an anonymous reviewer of the Journal of Public Policy.