This paper investigates the domestic characteristics of 'leaders' and 'laggards' in
environmental policy in 21 European countries as well as the USA, Mexico and Japan from …

Scholars have proposed the analytical concept of the environmental state, a state where
government actively addresses negative environmental externalities of economic activities …

A central issue of globalisation research is the question whether globalisation leads to the
convergence of policies or whether domestic responses to global challenges remain …

There is reason to believe that environmental policy convergence resulting from policy
diffusion is influenced not only by functional imperatives of the world market, but also by a …

Has globalisation led to a convergence in policy-making across nations and, if so, what are
the causal mechanisms? This book analyses the extent to which the environmental policies …

The long-standing debate on environmental policy 'leaders' and 'laggards' lends itself to a
new analysis following with the advent of the 2008 economic crisis. This paper, therefore …

The world's industrialized nations are the major consumers of the Earth's resources and
major sources of environmental pollution. Environmental protection plays an important role …

The European Union's (EU) role in determining the overall goals and targets of
environmental policy in Western Europe is well known and widely understood (Jordan 2005; …

In a previous article in this Journal entitled 'Institutions and Environmental Performance in
Seventeen Western Democracies'(29 (1999), 1–31), I argued that neo-corporatist institutions …

In institutional terms, the European Union (EU) is considerably'thicker'than it was thirty years
ago, with many new layers of decision-making procedure and myriad new actors, including …