Policy change and bureaucratic inertia

Abstract

The papers collated in this panel are dealing with phenomena of bureaucratic and institutional inertia on the one hand, and policy change on the other. Bureaucracy itself as a factor in policy change is an understudied area within the field of environmental politics, and it is discussed from various perspective by papers in the panel. Another factor influencing the possibility of change, as explored by one paper in the panel, may be the relationship between corruption and the level of women's representation. And, as will also be discussed, the relationship between electoral clientelism and extreme weather phenomena is another factor that has not been accounted for to date.

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The ‘Women’s Representation-Corruption Link’ and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	View Paper Details
Extreme Weather and Electoral Clientelism in Honduras	View Paper Details
Bureaucracy matters: Administrative structure and performance in Brazil’s federal protected areas agency	View Paper Details
Weberian bureaucracy and the persistence of unsustainability: the challenge of repurposing public administration - the experience of Wales	View Paper Details
Backlash to climate policy	View Paper Details