Contested Federalism and American Climate Policy

Fixing network failures? The contested case of the American Manufacturing Extension Partnership

The article uses a case study of the American Manufacturing Extension Partnership to explore economic and industrial policy in the contemporary USA. Extensive quantitative and qualitative data are mobilized to show that: (a) the agency is pressured politically to limit its activities to ‘blunt’ remedies for identifiable ‘market failures’; even as (b) regional centers in fact often orient also, ...

Legislating and Regulating Casino Gaming: a View from State Regulators

Introduction The authority to regulate legalized gambling activity has, throughout our nation’s history, been vested in the states of the union. With only limited exceptions, the U.S. Congress has accepted this constitutionally supported federalism. Importantly, the Congress has attempted to foster a public policy climate in which each state sets an independent framework for the form or extent ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Ethics: Uncertainty, Values and Policy

Climate change is a pressing phenomenon with huge potential ethical, legal and social policy implications. Climate change gives rise to intricate moral and policy issues as it involves contested science, uncertainty and risk. In order to come to scientifically and morally justified, as well as feasible, policies, targeting climate change requires an interdisciplinary approach. This special issu...

Cost-benefit federalism: reconciling collective action federalism and libertarian federalism in the Obamacare litigation and beyond.

The Atmosphere as a Global Commons – Challenges for International Cooperation and Governance

This article analyzes global climate policy as the problem of transforming governance of the atmosphere from an open-access into a global commons regime. This involves several challenges. First, setting an atmospheric stabilization goal requires balancing risks of climate change and risks of mitigation. Second, limiting the atmospheric disposal space for carbon devalues fossil resources and cre...