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Arthur P.j. Mol - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Political Modernization in China's Forest Governance? Payment Schemes for Forest Ecological Services in Liaoning
    Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2013
    Co-Authors: Dan Liang, Arthur P.j. Mol
    Abstract:

    Payment for environmental services (PES) schemes are increasingly being introduced in developed and developing countries for the ecological conservation of forests also. Such payment schemes resemble a new mode of forest governance labelled Political Modernization, in which centralized and state-based command-and-control policies make room for market dynamics, non-state actors, and decentralization. In entering the new Millennium, China has massively started using payment schemes to conserve its forests. An analysis of the implementation of the Forest Ecological Benefit Compensation Fund Programme in Liaoning Province is used to investigate whether China's PES schemes resemble notions of Political Modernization. It is concluded that Liaoning Province introduced market dynamics and farmer participation in the implementation of its PES scheme, but in a way different from that theorized by Political Modernization scholars. Hence, it should rather be seen as a ‘Chinese style’ Political Modernization process.

  • ecological Modernization in selected malaysian industrial sectors Political Modernization and sector variations
    Journal of Cleaner Production, 2012
    Co-Authors: Arthur P.j. Mol, C S A Van Koppen
    Abstract:

    The aim of this paper is to understand the differences in environmental performance of palm oil versus textile and apparel production chains in Malaysia by applying ecological Modernization theory via substantive quantitative testing. Ecological Modernization is tested via four hypotheses, namely policy formulation, technology, regulatory efforts and advocacy of preventive approaches. Two of these prove to be statistically significant for the palm oil production chain whereas none are statistically significant for the textile and apparel production chain. Better environmental performance is correlated with (1) higher involvement of companies in environmental policymaking, and (2) stronger emphasis on preventive approaches by government agencies.

  • joint environmental policymaking in europe between deregulation and Political Modernization
    Society & Natural Resources, 2003
    Co-Authors: Arthur P.j. Mol
    Abstract:

    The 1990s witnessed a debate on public-private partnerships and more consensual environmental policymaking to repair the "state failure" in conventional environmental regulation. One of the consequences in Europe has been new environmental policy arrangements that stand out by being both jointly formulated and/or implemented by the state and private actors and by having a voluntary element: joint environmental policymaking (JEP). Two questions are dealt with: (1) Are forms of JEP to be considered as innovations in environmental policymaking (Political Modernization) or rather as a continuation of the constant quest from capital for lowering the regulatory burden (deregulation)? (2) What is the influence of the broader Political and institutional context on the emergence and functioning of JEP arrangements? In answering these questions a comparative study was carried out on three areas of environmental policy (packaging, industrial energy efficiency, and food labeling) in three comparable European countrie...

Amanda Lea Robinson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • national versus ethnic identification in africa Modernization colonial legacy and the origins of territorial nationalism
    World Politics, 2014
    Co-Authors: Amanda Lea Robinson
    Abstract:

    Communal conflicts, civil wars, and state collapse have led many to portray the notion of African nation-states as an oxymoron. Some scholars of African politics—often referred to as second-generation Modernization theorists—have argued that strong ethnic attachments across the continent resulted from rapid economic and Political Modernization, the very forces credited with reducing parochial ties and consolidating European nations in classic Modernization theory. Others have argued that national consolidation in Africa is particularly unlikely due to high degrees of ethnic diversity, colonial rule that exacerbated that diversity, and the partition of cultural groups. Despite the ubiquity of these arguments, there has been very little comparative empirical research on territorial nationalism in Africa. Using individual-level data from sixteen countries, combined with a novel compilation of ethnic group and state characteristics, the author evaluates the observable implications of these long-respected theoretical traditions within a multilevel framework. She finds that attachment to the nation, relative to one’s ethnic group, increases with education, urbanization, and formal employment at the individual level, and with economic development at the state level—patterns more consistent with classic Modernization theory than with second-generation Modernization theory. Thus, if Modernization in Africa does indeed intensify ethnic attachment, the impact is overwhelmed by the concurrent increase in panethnic territorial nationalism. Similarly, the results show that ethnic diversity and the partition of ethnic groups by “artificial” state borders increase, rather than decrease, the degree to which individuals identify nationally. Taken together, these results reject pessimistic expectations of African exceptionalism and instead suggest that the emergence of widespread national identification within African states is not only possible but even increasingly likely with greater economic development.

Gao Hong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the constructing of civil society and the realization of Political Modernization in china
    Journal of Nanjing Normal University, 2003
    Co-Authors: Gao Hong
    Abstract:

    The systematical reform of China takes a gradual development pattern,in a way from internal system to external system.It is twenty years now since China's reform and opening to the outside world,our country's market ecnomy has gained great development,nowadays the reform in China enters the deepwater ared,requires corresponding reform in Political system.The Political system of China is facing unprecedented challenge presently,particularly in the weakening of governmental authority , the decline of state independence and the public's indifferance in Political participation.To realize Political Modernization of China,it is very significant to construct powerful and robust civil society.

Irina Busygina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • benefits and risks of Political Modernization in russia
    Social Science Research Network, 2012
    Co-Authors: Irina Busygina, Mikhail Filippov
    Abstract:

    A government-proclaimed desire to promote technological innovation and boost economic growth in Russia implies the need for the state to take an active role in the economy and to provide the right stimuli and guarantees for investors. Since under its current Political regime the Russian state lacks trust and credibility, and since the actions of the state to promote innovative economic development as well as its likelihood of succeeding depend on its type and characteristics, such an economic agenda would demand democratization. For entrepreneurs and investors, in its current form the Russian state is inefficient, riddled with corruption, lacking in accountability, and unpredictable. Most importantly, it cannot credibly commit to respect property rights and sustain the rules with which they are associated. Democratic reforms, ideally, could modernize the Russian state and make it simultaneously strong, limited, accountable, conducive to good governance and, thus, an effective agent of economic Modernization. Yet the same Russian leadership that proclaims the vital importance of economic and technological innovation is reluctant to engage in Political Modernization, attempting instead to improve the existing model of governance by administrative methods.

  • risks and constraints of Political Modernization in russia the federal problem
    Social Science Research Network, 2010
    Co-Authors: Irina Busygina, Mikhail Filippov, Olga Shvetsova
    Abstract:

    This paper discusses the Political risks and constraints associated with democratic reforms (currently labeled in Russia as Political Modernization) which arise due to Russia’s size, diversity of social, Political and economic conditions and, most importantly, its federal constitutional structure. We argue that the two principles, democracy and federalism, are dissonant during the period of democratic transition and consolidation, and therefore we should expect transition to democracy in Russia to be particularly protracted, difficult and volatile.

C S A Van Koppen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.