Climate change policy networks: Why and how to compare them across countries

摘要: Abstract Why do some countries enact more ambitious climate change policies than others? Macro level economic and political structures, such as the weight of fossil fuel industries, play an important role in shaping these policies. So national science community culture science. But process by which macro-structural factors translate into power can be analyzed through focussing on meso policy networks. The Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (COMPON) research project has studied networks twenty since 2007. Along with findings, this paper presents methodological challenges faced solutions developed course project. After a presentation project, we first outline practical related to conducting cross-national network surveys overcome them, present adopted during We then turn causal explanation differences, propose Qualitative Comparative Analysis one solution for combining different levels analysis (macro meso) data types (quantitative, qualitative).