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Matthew Paterson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • who and what are carbon markets for politics and the development of climate policy
    Climate Policy, 2012
    Co-Authors: Matthew Paterson
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    Why have carbon markets been rapidly adopted as policy solutions to climate change in the last decade? Perhaps surprisingly, this question has attracted virtually no attention in the large literature on such markets. The standard arguments given for why carbon markets are good ways to respond to climate change do not explain why such markets have flourished as governance mechanisms in relation to climate. Carbon markets have spread and become taken-for-granted because of the potential they give to certain powerful actors (financiers, specifically) to create new cycles of investment, profits and growth. As a consequence, they make possible a Political coalition combining financiers with environmentalists. This coalition has considerable potential to legitimize substantial cuts in carbon emissions in the face of continued opposition from other interests. It is the combination of these two elements - the promotion of specific growth sectors and the construction of a Political coalition - that constitutes the principal Political Virtue of carbon markets. In order to demonstrate this claim, the history of emissions trading is traced and the implication of this analysis is explored for the further building of climate governance centred on carbon markets.

Francisco Panizza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A reform without losers: the symbolic economy of civil service reform in Uruguay 1995-96
    Latin American Politics & Society, 2004
    Co-Authors: Francisco Panizza
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    This article analyzes the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions in the 1996 reform of the civil service in Uruguay. Beneath the appearance of a process led by technocratic principles, the reform's agenda and content were shaped by legitimating principles, strongly institutionalized interests, and the Political legacy of earlier failed reform attempts. Reformers sought a strategy of a reform "without losers," which, instead of gathering support for adoption and implementation, sought to minimize opposition. This deliberately low-profile strategy left people unaware of the reform's achievements and thereby reinforced a Political culture that has made resistance to change both a Political Virtue and an inescapable condition.

  • A Reform without Losers: The Symbolic Economy of Civil Service Reform in Uruguay, 1995–96
    Latin American Politics and Society, 2004
    Co-Authors: Francisco Panizza
    Abstract:

    AbstractThis article analyzes the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions in the 1996 reform of the civil service in Uruguay. Beneath the appearance of a process led by technocratic principles, the reform's agenda and content were shaped by legitimating principles, strongly institutionalized interests, and the Political legacy of earlier failed reform attempts. Reformers sought a strategy of a reform “without losers,” which, instead of gathering support for adoption and implementation, sought to minimize opposition. This deliberately low-profile strategy left people unaware of the reform's achievements and thereby reinforced a Political culture that has made resistance to change both a Political Virtue and an inescapable condition.

Bente Halkier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism and Collective Action
    Perspectives on Politics, 2004
    Co-Authors: Bente Halkier
    Abstract:

    Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism and Collective Action. By Michele Micheletti. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 247p. $55.00. Although this book is complex and multifaceted, there is one central argument running through it. This argument consists of the claim that consumption practices can be understood as Political practices, and that such consumption practices are significant for societal development. For example, when a woman goes to the supermarket to buy shampoo, she can choose to buy the one with an environmentally friendly label, thus supporting policies of sustainability. The author sees the phenomenon of Political consumerism as a reaction to the derooting of politics from the context of the nation-state into more microlocal as well as more global contexts, and she develops her own concept for defining Political consumerism as Political participation, namely, individualized collective action .

Aurelian Craiutu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • In Search of a Lost Archipelago
    A Virtue for Courageous Minds, 2012
    Co-Authors: Aurelian Craiutu
    Abstract:

    This chapter examines different visions of moderation in the history of French Political thought. It first considers the reluctance to theorize about moderation, in part because moderation has often been understood as a vague Virtue. It then discusses moderation in the classical and Christian traditions, focusing on the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, followed by an analysis of the writings of sixteenth-century Political thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Claude de Seyssel, Louis Le Roy, Étienne Pasquier, Michel de Montaigne, Blaise Pascal, and French moralists such as La Bruyère and François de La Rochefoucauld. It also describes the transformation of moderation from a predominantly ethical concept into a prominent Political Virtue. Finally, it explores the views of authors such as David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on fanaticism in relation to moderation.

  • Why Moderation?
    A Virtue for Courageous Minds, 2012
    Co-Authors: Aurelian Craiutu
    Abstract:

    This book explores moderation in French Political thought during the period 1748–1830 by focusing on a wide range of Political, historical, sociological, and philosophical writings related to the French Revolution. Arguing that moderation is the quintessential Political Virtue, the book discusses two main themes: moderation under the Old Regime, when moderate agendas were used as means of criticizing a rigid and inefficient hierarchical structure and proposing concrete blueprints for Political reform; and various attempts at institutionalizing moderation during the revolution and its aftermath, when it was primarily interpreted and used as a means of “ending” the revolution. It suggests that moderation has intrinsic substantive Political orientations and values of its own and is related to constitutionalism, a politics of skepticism as opposed to a “politics of faith” and of absolute ends. This prologue provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

Megan Gallagher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Moving Hearts: Cultivating Patriotic Affect in Rousseau's Considerations on the Government of Poland
    2016
    Co-Authors: Megan Gallagher
    Abstract:

    Rousseau’s embrace of ceremony and festivals in his 'Considerations on the Government of Poland' demonstrates one way for republican Political thought to develop a substantive treatment of civic Virtue. Differentiating the narcissism of spectacle and theater that Rousseau critiques in the 'Letter to d’Alembert' from the 'Considerations' call for a generous affect, I demonstrate that the latter is compatible with a republican ethos premised on civic Virtue and patriotic attachment to the nation-state. Rousseau argues for the instantiation of Political practices that constantly cultivate Political Virtue and their associated affective orientations. His treatment of civic ceremonies in the 'Considerations' should be read as an attempt to inculcate patriotic affect in republican citizens via constitutional measures.

  • Moving Hearts: Cultivating Patriotic Affect in Rousseau’s Considerations on the Government of Poland:
    Law Culture and the Humanities, 2016
    Co-Authors: Megan Gallagher
    Abstract:

    Rousseau’s embrace of ceremony and festivals in his Considerations on the Government of Poland demonstrates one way for republican Political thought to develop a substantive treatment of civic Virtue. Differentiating the narcissism of spectacle and theater that Rousseau critiques in the Letter to d’Alembert from the Considerations’ call for a generous affect, I demonstrate that the latter is compatible with a republican ethos premised on civic Virtue and patriotic attachment to the nation-state. Rousseau argues for the instantiation of Political practices that constantly cultivate Political Virtue and their associated affective orientations. His treatment of civic ceremonies in the Considerations should be read as an attempt to inculcate patriotic affect in republican citizens via constitutional measures.