Graduate Student, Political Science
Thesis Title: Energy Security and Climate Change Policy in the OECD: The Political Economy of Pricing Carbon
Louis Pauly
Neil Nevitte
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Against the backdrop of concern over climate change and energy security, my dissertation develops an explanation of differences in taxes on carbon-based energy products across a sub-set of advanced capitalist democracies in the OECD over the period 1978-2006. After testing for the causal efficacy of political interests, institutions, and ideas in the policy-making process, I find that certain political institutions, like the electoral system, mediate the influence of political interests and their impact on tax policy outcomes.
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