The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and their Reform
The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and their Reform
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USDFossil fuel subsidies strain public budgets, and contribute to climate change and local air pollution. Despite widespread agreement among experts about the benefits of reforming fossil fuel subsidies, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some countries to reform them, they continue to persist. This book helps explain this conundrum, by exploring the politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, the book offers new case studies both from countries that have undertaken subsidy reform, and those that have yet to do so. It explores the roles of various intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions in promoting fossil fuel subsidy reform at the international level, as well as conceptual aspects of fossil fuel subsidies. This is essential reading for researchers and practitioners, and students of political science, international relations, law, public policy, and environmental studies. This title is also available as Open Access.
- Contains the first academic collection of analyses of the global and domestic politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform
- Offers new insights into why - notwithstanding its obvious benefits - fossil fuel subsidy reform sometimes fails and sometimes succeeds
- Applies an analytical framework allowing readers to place fossil fuel subsidies within a wider political science context
- This title is also available as Open Access
Reviews & endorsements
'Fossil fuel subsidies are enormous, damaging, and fiendishly hard to reform. This is an essential, comprehensive guide to understanding the issue - and identifying the narrow pathways that may lead to reform. Anyone concerned with the political economy of climate change will benefit from Skovgaard and van Asselt’s important book.' Michael L. Ross, University of California, Los Angeles
'Fossil fuel subsidies are expensive and harmful to the environment, yet governments around the world continue to dole them out. This volume offers a comprehensive review of the problem, the politics surrounding it, and experiences with reform efforts in different countries. Skovgaard and van Asselt have compiled an excellent collection on one of the great public policy problems of our time.' Johannes Urpelainen, The Johns Hopkins University
'Over the past century, the politics, institutions and infrastructure of industrial economies have co-evolved with fossil fuels. Yet, addressing climate change is impossible if countries do not wean themselves off fossil fuels, and fast. In this comprehensive new book, Skovgaard and van Asselt, along with a diverse set of contributors, unpack the entrenched politics of fossil fuel subsidies that lie at the heart of this dilemma. Built both around detailed country cases and the dynamics of international institutional politics, they develop a framework to understand the emergence of fossil fuel subsidies as a key agenda in global and national climate politics, but also for its uncertain progress. In both its wide scope, as well as its incisive treatment, this is a field-defining volume of a critical topic.' Navroz K. Dubash, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
'This is an important book that provides an excellent technical review of the impact of fossil fuel subsidies in the context of the pressing need to address global warming.' William R. Green, The Leading Edge
Product details
August 2018Hardback
9781108416795
362 pages
250 × 178 × 25 mm
0.8kg
16 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. The politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform: an introduction Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt
- Part II. The Scope of the Challenge:
- 2. Defining and measuring fossil fuel subsidies Doug Koplow
- 3. Reforming fossil fuel subsidies: the art of the possible Shelagh Whitley and Laurie van der Burg
- 4. The political economy of incumbency: fossil fuel subsidies in global and historical context Peter Newell and Phil Johnstone
- Part III. The International Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform:
- 5. Fossil fuel subsidy reform: an international norm perspective Thijs Van de Graaf and Mathieu Blondeel
- 6. International push, domestic reform? The influence of international economic institutions on fossil fuel subsidy reform Jakob Svovgaard
- 7. Fossil fuel subsidies and the global trade regime Ronald Steenblik, Jehan Sauvage and Christina Timiliotis
- 8. Fossil fuel subsidies and the global climate regime Harro van Asselt, Laura Merrill and Kati Kulovesi
- 9. Anatomy of an international norm entrepreneur: the friends of fossil fuel subsidy reform Vernon Rive
- 10. The global subsidies initiative: catalytic actors and the politics of fossil fuel subsidy reform Nathan Lemphers, Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann
- Part IV. The Domestic Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform:
- 11. Fossil fuel subsidy reform in Indonesia: the struggle for successful reform Kathryn Chelminski
- 12. Lessons from the world's largest subsidy benefit transfer scheme: the case of liquefied petroleum gas subsidy reform in India Abhishek Jain, Shalu Agrawal and Karthik Ganesan
- 13. Sustaining carbon lock-in: fossil fuel subsidies in South Africa Jesse Burton, Tawney Lott and Britta Rennkamp
- 14. The politics of subsidies to coal extraction in Colombia Claudia Strambo, Ana Carolina González Espinosa, Angélica Puertas Velasco and Aaron Atteridge
- 15. Reforming Egypt's fossil fuel subsidies in the context of a changing social contract Tom S. H. Moerenhout
- 16. Actors, frames and contexts in fossil fuel subsidy reform: the case of Trinidad and Tobago Michelle Scobie
- Part V. Synthesis and Conclusions:
- 17. Conclusions and ways forward Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt
- Index.
