Bringing the low-carbon agenda to China: a study in transnational policy diffusion

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

This study traces the transnational interactions that contributed to introducing the low-carbon economy agenda into Chinese policymaking. A microprocessual two-level analysis (outside-in as well as inside-access) is employed to analyse transnational and domestic exchanges. The study provides evidence that low-carbon agenda-setting - introduced by transnational actors, backed by foreign funding, promoted by policy entrepreneurs from domestic research institutes, propelled by top-level attention, but only gradually and cautiously adopted by the government bureaucracy - can be considered a case of effective transnational diffusion based on converging perceptions of novel policy challenges and options. Opinion leaders and policy-brokers from the government-linked scientific community functioned as effective access points to the Chinese government's policy agenda.

Object Details

• Alternative title: Die CO2-Reduktionsagenda nach China bringen: eine Studie zur transnationalen Politikdiffusion
• ISSN: 1868-4874
• Extent: Seite(n): 199-215
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 42(1)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Internationale Beziehungen ; Ökologie ; Ökologie und Umwelt ; internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik ; China ; politische Entscheidung ; politische Herrschaft ; politische Kommunikation ; Ökologie ; Klimawandel ; Klimapolitik ; Klimaschutz ; transnationale Beziehungen ; Einfluss ; Interaktion ; Diffusion ; Ostasien ; anwendungsorientiert ; deskriptive Studie ; empirisch ; empirisch-quantitativ

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hofem, Andreas ; Heilmann, Sebastian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2013

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-5965
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST