Carbon Taxation and Policy Labeling: Experience from American States and Canadian Provinces
dc.contributor.author | Rabe, Barry G. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Borick, Christopher P. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-21T15:47:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-07-01T14:33:05Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2012-05 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Rabe, Barry G.; Borick, Christopher P. (2012). "Carbon Taxation and Policy Labeling: Experience from American States and Canadian Provinces." Review of Policy Research 29(3). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91109> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1541-132X | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1541-1338 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91109 | |
dc.description.abstract | A vast economics literature embraces taxation of the carbon content of fossil fuels as the superior policy approach for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, experience around the world suggests that carbon taxes face exceedingly difficult political hurdles. Federal experience in the United States and in Canada confirms this pattern. This article reviews sub‐federal policy development among American states and Canadian provinces, a great many of which have pursued climate policy development. With one major exception, explicit carbon taxation appears to remain a political nonstarter. At the same time, states and provinces have been placing indirect carbon prices on fossil fuel use through a wide range of policies. These tend to strategically alter labeling, avoiding the terms of “tax” and “carbon” in imposing costs. The article offers a framework for considering such strategies and examines common design features, including direct linkage between cost imposition and fund usage to build political support. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Inc | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Carbon Taxation | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Climate Change | en_US |
dc.subject.other | United States | en_US |
dc.subject.other | State and Provincial Environmental Policy | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Canada | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Climate Policy | en_US |
dc.subject.other | North America | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Energy Taxation | en_US |
dc.title | Carbon Taxation and Policy Labeling: Experience from American States and Canadian Provinces | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Political Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Government, Politics and Law | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Muhlenberg College | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91109/1/j.1541-1338.2012.00564.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2012.00564.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Review of Policy Research | en_US |
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