Instrument constituencies and the supply side of policy innovation: the social life of emissions trading

Environmental Politics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 735-754

  Voß, Jan Peter ^a   Simons, Arno ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon markets; environmental markets; innovation in governance; policy change; policy diffusion; policy instruments; policy learning; practices; science and technology studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918772449     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.923625     Document Type: Article

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