Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico

IF 2.2 4区管理学 Q2 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Policy Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-29 DOI:10.1080/01442872.2022.2149724

I. Solorio, J. Tosun

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Abstract

ABSTRACT We assess whether different presidents have different “styles” of involving intermediary organizations such as trade unions or business associations in the policy process. Given that temporal variation in the relationship between presidents and intermediaries can be observed, to what extent can the intermediaries included in the policy process be explained by the respective president’s leadership style and/or political ideology? We concentrate on the process by which clean energy policies were formulated under three Mexican presidents between 2006 and 2022. We draw on original data collected through 18 semi-structured interviews carried out with intermediaries between January and July 2022. Our findings show that the different presidents had different policy styles and therefore varied in how they included climate intermediaries in the policy process. This finding has important implications for research on policy styles as well as climate intermediation. Regarding policy styles the results presented call for theorizing of the dynamics observed. As concerns climate intermediaries the corresponding literature is invited to pay more attention to the political context in which they operate.

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总统和中间商:墨西哥清洁能源政策进程的见解

摘要本文评估了不同总统在政策制定过程中涉及工会或商业协会等中介组织的“风格”是否不同。既然可以观察到总统和中间人之间关系的时间变化，那么政策过程中包括的中间人在多大程度上可以用各自总统的领导风格和/或政治意识形态来解释?我们将重点关注2006年至2022年期间三位墨西哥总统制定清洁能源政策的过程。我们利用在2022年1月至7月期间与中介机构进行的18次半结构化访谈收集的原始数据。我们的研究结果表明，不同的总统有不同的政策风格，因此他们在政策过程中纳入气候中介机构的方式也各不相同。这一发现对政策风格和气候中介的研究具有重要意义。关于政策风格，提出的结果要求对观察到的动态进行理论化。至于气候中介机构，请相应的文献更多地关注它们运作的政治背景。

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Policy Studies PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

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5.40

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4.50%

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