| Inhalt |
This undergraduate course serves as a basic introduction to the politics
of climate change. How do governments cooperate to address and
solve global environmental problems such as climate change? Why do some
countries enact more rigorous climate change policies than others?
The
course combines international and comparative approaches to climate change
politics. It starts off by inquiring how climate change
became a political issue in the 1980s and how governments began to act on
climate change from the 1990s onwards. Over the course of the semester, we
will look at climate change governance efforts at the international, national
and local levels. Regarding the national level, we are – for example-
interested in why are some countries making ambitious investments in renewable
energy, while others are still heavily subsidizing the consumption of fossil
fuels? How can public opinion account for such policy differences? What is the role of political parties?
The
goal of the course is to provide students with a solid basic understanding of
the politics and the political economy of climate change. It draws attention to
the latest research and provides students with the conceptual tools to evaluate
different policies and governance approaches.
As
this is a basic course there are no formal prerequisites and participation of
students from different disciplinary backgrounds is encouraged. An openness
towards and familiarity with basic research methods is generally helpful. Many
of the readings in the class feature quantitative analysis and there will be a
short intro to reading journal articles in general and quantitative analysis in
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| Literatur |
- Stoddard, I., Anderson, K., Capstick, S., Carton, W., Depledge, J.,
Facer, K., ... & Williams, M. (2021). Three decades of climate mitigation:
why haven't we bent the global emissions curve?. Annual Review of
Environment and Resources, 46, 653-689.
- Colgan, J. D., Green, J. F., & Hale, T. N. (2021). Asset revaluation
and the existential politics of climate change. International
Organization, 75(2), 586-610.
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