Smart (and Not-So-Smart) Mixes of New Environmental Policy Instruments

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4 - Smart (and Not-So-Smart) Mixes of New Environmental Policy Instruments

from Part I - Conceptual Approaches to Smart Mixes

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2019

Anthony Zito and

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André Nollkaemper and

Niels Philipsen

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Judith van Erp: Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Michael Faure: Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
André Nollkaemper: Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Niels Philipsen: Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

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This chapter analyses the adoption and deployment of traditional ‘command-and-control’ regulations and ‘new’ environmental policy instruments (NEPIs) as they occur in practice in five different jurisdictions, namely Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (UK) as well as the European Union (EU) since the early 1970s. It focuses on three different types of NEPIs – informational instruments, voluntary agreements and market-based instruments – and examines how and why they have become mixed in different jurisdictions. It argues that while there has been a significant uptake of NEPIs in all five jurisdictions, important differences have remained regarding the composition of instrument mixes in particular jurisdictions. Adopting a longitudinal perspective allows for the identification of leaders, followers and laggards for different types of NEPIs. Although there may be a theoretical ‘optimal mix’ of policy instruments, in reality patterns of adoption and deployment are very strongly influenced by a mixture of contingent factors, which vary within and across jurisdictions, over time.

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