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- Pickering, Jonathan, et al.
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Acting on Climate Finance Pledges: Inter-Agency Dynamics and Relationships with Aid in Contributor States
- 2015
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Ingår i: World Development. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-5991 .- 0305-750X. ; 68, s. 149-162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Developed countries have relied heavily on aid budgets to fulfill their pledges to boost funding for addressing climate change in developing countries. However, little is known about how interaction between aid and other ministries has shaped contributorsâ diverse approaches to climate finance. This paper investigates intra-governmental dynamics in decision-making on climate finance in seven contributor countries (Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the UK, and the US). While aid agencies retained considerable control over implementation, environment and finance ministries have played an influential and often contrasting role on key policy issues, including distribution between mitigation and adaptation and among geographical regions.
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- Önder, Ali Sina, et al.
(författare)
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No Place like Home : Opinion Formation with Homophily and Implications for Policy Decisions
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We demonstrate a simple model of opinion diffusion where a local opinion leader acts as the initiator of public discussion. We show the possibility of driving a significant wedge between opinions of two groups that exhibit homophily even though individuals are highly conformist. In particular, we show that there exists an opinion gap between the group which the opinion leader belongs to (referred to as the residence community) and the other group; and this opinion gap is increasing in the relative size of the residence community. Using a unique dataset of national referenda in Switzerland from 2008 to 2012, we show that members of parliament (MPs) match referenda outcomes in their residence communities closer than they do in neighboring communities, and this wedge interacts signicantly with the relative size of the residence community, thus aligning with our theoretical conjectures. We conclude that observed opinion gaps can actually be overrated to the extent that they are driven by structures that underlie the social web of different groups within the society.
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