This paper addresses a current trend of new environmental governance (NEG). It examines whether NEG is able to overcome a series of complex regulatory barriers and market shortfalls that stand in the way of carbon emissions reductions in the building sector. Building on an evaluation of 20 NEG...

Chenoweth and Stephan (2011) found that nonviolent resistance movements since 1900 have twice the success rate of violent movements in achieving their objectives. Schock and Chenoweth (2012) furthermore show that nonviolent resistance movements with a violent radical flank have a lower success...

Solar Photovoltaics (PV) on individual rooftops are a potentially revolutionary form of electricity generation. This paper critically analyses this potential in light of key debates on the impact of solar PV on the existing electricity market in Australia. These debates draw on electricity...

A popular sentiment among Chinese that - corruption could lead to the end of the state and anti-corruption could lead to the end of the Chinese Communist Party - provides a unique perspective from which to interpret China’s current prospects for institutional reform. This paper offers an...

In 2008 the International Energy Agency (IEA) called for an energy revolution, involving radical action by governments at national and local levels, and through participation in coordinated international mechanisms. Fundamental to achieving such a revolution is the role of governments, and the...

This article examines whether China is on the verge of a ‘shale gas revolution’ with far reaching consequences for energy policy and climate change mitigation. On the contrary, it argues that various technological, environmental, political, regulatory and institutional factors will constrain...

The publication in 1999 of To Err is Human unleashed the potential for systems of regulatory governance to improve the safety and quality of health care services for patients (Institute of Medicine, 2000). In addition, it marked a point at which patients, health care professionals and health...

The problems associated with the global drug trade are amongst the most challenging and intractable of all those facing policy-makers. The global drug prohibition system is widely acknowledged as a costly and counterproductive failure, not only presiding over a massive expansion of the problem...

Process based regulation has proved responsive and reflexive in dealing with the plural subjects of regulation and the different worlds they inhabit. However, regulatory failures, and the financial crises we are now undergoing, are testing the capacities of these regulatory modes. This paper...

An increasing proportion of the largest corporations in the world are majority publicly owned; a growing proportion of the biggest national economies have higher levels of public ownership than the North Atlantic economies that dominated the twentieth century. The Cold War contest between purer...