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dc.contributor.authorRussel, DJ
dc.contributor.authorBenson, D
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-27T15:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2013-04-05
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the integration of environmental concerns into government fiscal cycles, or green budgeting. Despite being an increasingly popular means of pursuing environmental policy, the global spread of green budgeting governance norms has been manifestly uneven. However, recent stimulus packages employed by many advanced economies to promote economic growth have had a strong green element. This raises questions over how the current desire for fiscal austerity interacts with existing factors that constrain or facilitate environmental policy via budgeting. By drawing on theoretical arguments that argue macro ‘politics matters’ in budget composition, we develop an analytical framework for explaining budgeting practices. This political preference framework (PPF) is then employed to examine green budgeting in two leading but otherwise contrasting industrialised economies, namely the USA and the UK. From this analysis, it is argued that key veto players have often set the green budgeting agenda in the current age of austerity. The scope for further theoretical, empirical and normative research is consequently discussed.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 23, pp. 243 - 262en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09644016.2013.775727
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/26803
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_GB
dc.subjectEnvironmenten_GB
dc.subjectgreen budgetingen_GB
dc.subjectage of austerityen_GB
dc.subjectcredit crunchen_GB
dc.subjectUKen_GB
dc.subjectUSAen_GB
dc.subjectbudgetsen_GB
dc.subjectfiscal stimulusen_GB
dc.subjectpolitical preference frameworken_GB
dc.titleGreen budgeting in an age of austerity: a transatlantic comparative perspectiveen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2017-03-27T15:00:38Z
dc.identifier.issn0964-4016
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalEnvironmental Politicsen_GB
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