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California's Climate Change Policy

The Case of a Subnational State Actor Tackling a Global Challenge

Daniel A. Mazmanian

University of Southern California

John Jurewitz

Pomona College

Hal Nelson

Claremont Graduate University

For all its economic capacity, population size, and resource base, California remains only one among the 50 United States and, essentially, is a subnational actor attempting to play a role in the climate change policy arena on par with the nation-states of the world. This raises a series of questions about the substance and breadth of the state's new policy and what has motivated it. The state's policy declarations and initial flurry of activities are impressive. As with all so broad and sweeping initiatives, it remains to be seen the extent to which policy goals can and will be translated into operational rules and regulations, incentives and sanctions, and actual accomplishments across all the sectors of the state's economy over the course of not just months and years but the decades to come.

Key Words: California • climate policy • regulation • environmental political economy

The Journal of Environment & Development, Vol. 17, No. 4, 401-423 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1070496508325438
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