Explaining the design of global environmental regimes -- Downstream consumers and climate change mitigation in the airlines and shipping industries -- Consumers and intermediate producers in the phase-out of agricultural and industrial ozone-depleting substances -- Producers and market incentives in the design of global atmospheric institutions : financial assistance and technology transfer -- Industrial and artisanal producers and the hybrid governance of mercury pollution -- Producers, trade groups, and the design of global environmental regimes -- Regulating under constraints
Summary
Why have national governments created different international rules and institutions to address global environmental issues? Alexander Ovodenko argues that this variation can be explained by looking to a dynamic that has been thus far downplayed by the literature on global environmental governance: the structures of industries regulated by environmental rules. Regulating the Polluters inverts the literature on regulatory capture and collective action by presenting empirical evidence of the irony of market power in global environmental politics
