Tracking presidents and policies: environmental politics from Lula to Dilma. (4th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hochstetler, Kathryn
• Is Part Of: Policy studies. Volume 38:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 262
• Page End: 276
• Publication Date: 2017-05-04
• Subjects: Brazil -- presidentialism -- environmental policy -- deforestation -- environmental impact assessment; Policy sciences -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Economic policy -- Decision making -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Decision making -- Periodicals; 320.605
• DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2017.1290229
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0144-2872

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Does the Brazilian presidential system shape environmental policy there? The comparative literature on environmental policy offers few reasons to think that it might. Most explanations of variations in the quantity and quality of environmental regulation stress levels of economic development or move outside of the nation-state to examine international processes of diffusion and convergence. Other studies look at large macrostructural differences like the contrast between democratic and authoritarian systems and/or the role of non-state actors. This article examines environmental policies and outcomes in three successive presidential administrations in Brazil to develop hypotheses about whether institutional factors should gain a larger place in comparative studies of environmental policies and outcomes.