Climate change and UK politics: From Brynle Williams to Sir Nicholas Stern

Political Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 184-193

  McLean, Iain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservative party; Global warming; Heresthetics; N person prisoners' dilemma; Stern review

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449141018     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2008.00916.x     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Sir Nicholas Stern, Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, London, HM Treasury, 2006. (Available online at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/stern_review_report. cfm), esp. Table 8.5;
2. IPCC, Climate Change 2007: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), Geneva, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 (Available online at: http://www.ipcc.ch/).
3. Stern Review, pp. 203-4.
4. William H. Riker, Liberalism against Populism, San Francisco, CA, W.H. Freeman, 1982.
5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/924774.stm (accessed 13 June 2007).
6. Brynle Williams, 'Concern that UK will miss renewable energy target'. Available online at: http://www.brynlewilliams.com/news_detail.php?lang= &nid=430 (accessed 13 June 2007).
7. HM Treasury, Haulage Industry Task Group: Summary of Evidence, London, HM Treasury, 2006. Available online at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/53E/ 6C/pbr06_haulage_230.pdf
8. Sources: HM Treasury, Financial Statement and Budget Report, published annually, tables in Chapter C;
9. Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, 2007, Table B8; Office of National Statistics, Consumer Price Index (CPI).
10. I. McLean, 'William H. Riker and the invention of heresthetic(s)', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 32, 2002, pp. 535-58.
11. Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky, Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 171.
12. Stern Review, Chapter 2;
13. Partha Dasgupta, 'Comments on the Stern Review's Economics of Climate Change', 2006 (Available online at: http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/dasgupta/ STERN.pdf);
14. Paul Klemperer, 'Awkward questions on behalf of our children', Financial Times, 11 May 2007;
15. William Nordhaus, "The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change', 2007, (to appear in Journal of Economic Literature. Preprint available online at: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nordhaus/DICEGAMS/stern_050307.pdf).