Green Taxation in Question Politics and Economic Efficiency in Environmental Regulation

About this book

Environmental economists have in general paid little or no attention to the political context within which green taxation would be introduced. In order to understand the real life politics of green taxation and to base future policy recommendations on this analysis, it is necessary to establish which political constraints determine the actual design of green taxes. Daugbjerg and Svendsen answer this question by identifying three main political constraints: the micro level approach of rent seeking the macro level approach of party politics and the meso level approach of policy networks. Based on these findings the authors develop policy recommendations concerning the future design of green taxation and international permit trading.

Contents

Preface - The Politics and Economics of Green Taxation - Group Mobilization and Rent-Seeking - Parties Matter - Policy Networks - Designing Green Taxation - Designing Permit Trading - Index

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Biography

CARSTEN DAUGBJERG is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Policy Networks under Pressure: Pollution Control, Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers and he has published several articles in Scandinavian and international journals. - GERT TINGGAARD SVENDSEN is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, The Aarhus School of Business. He is the author of Public Choice and Environmental Regulation: Tradable Permit Systems in United States and CO? Taxation in Europe and of numerous articles in leading international and Scandinavian journals.