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dc.contributor.authorTakao, Yasuo
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:54:58Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:54:58Z
dc.date.created2014-08-25T20:00:27Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationTakao, Y. 2014. Policy learning and diffusion of Tokyo's metropolitan cap-and-trade: making a mandatory reduction of total CO2 emissions work at local scales. Policy Studies. 35 (4): pp. 319-338.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26738
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01442872.2013.875151
dc.description.abstract

The process of adopting policy ideas is extremely complex and requires a close examination of the political context in which the idea is learned, articulated, contested, adapted, and accepted by agents, both individual and collective. Why and how was the world's first urban scheme of mandatory reduction of total emissions adopted in Tokyo and not elsewhere? What might cause diffusion of this idea in other urban areas? One key explanation behind the idea adoption is a policy evolution of trial-and-error lessons about effective policy design, desirable policy goals, and politically feasible judgments. This study finds that both agency effects and structural opportunities of policy adoption in the case of Tokyo's cap-and-trade are too specific to result in a more coherent diffusion of ideas, policies, and practices in other urban areas. Although there is a sign of diffusion of Tokyo's cap-and-trade throughout Japan, it is more likely to derive from mimicking behaviors than from learning. The policy transfer of Tokyo's cap-and-trade requires the continuous learning of adaptive capacity to make it better fit to locally specific conditions.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectcap-and-trade
dc.subjectTokyo
dc.subjectpolicy diffusion
dc.subjectpolicy learning
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.titlePolicy learning and diffusion of Tokyo's metropolitan cap-and-trade: making a mandatory reduction of total CO2 emissions work at local scales
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume35
dcterms.source.number4
dcterms.source.startPage319
dcterms.source.endPage338
dcterms.source.issn0144-2872
dcterms.source.titlePolicy Studies
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Policy Studies, 2014, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01442872.2013.875151">http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01442872.2013.875151</a>

curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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