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From Foe to Friend? Business, the Tipping Point and U.S. Climate Politics

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This article develops a model for analyzing corporate strategy formation and regulatory change in environmental politics. The model emphasize how conditions that materialize through the dynamic interplay between corporate preferences and multilevel environmental governance can trigger the emergence of “tipping points,” at which a critical mass of leading industries begin to push for regulatory change. It is argued that tipping points often generate new political momentum and may lead to considerable progress in political and legislative bargaining. The model is applied to a case study of U.S. climate politics between 1990 and 2010. The case demonstrates that the tipping point model provides a plausible account of the intersection between business strategies and the failures and successes of federal climate action in this period.

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  • Vormedal, Irja, 2011. "From Foe to Friend? Business, the Tipping Point and U.S. Climate Politics," Business and Politics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(3), pages 1-29, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buspol:v:13:y:2011:i:03:p:1-29_00
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    1. Irja Vormedal & Jonas Meckling, 2024. "How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 57(1), pages 101-124, March.
    2. Daniel Witte, 2020. "Business for Climate: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Policy Support from Transnational Companies," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 20(4), pages 167-191, Autumn.
    3. Downie, Christian, 2017. "Business actors, political resistance, and strategies for policymakers," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 583-592.
    4. Jonas Meckling, 2015. "Oppose, Support, or Hedge? Distributional Effects, Regulatory Pressure, and Business Strategy in Environmental Politics," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 15(2), pages 19-37, May.
    5. Irja Vormedal & Lars H. Gulbrandsen & Jon Birger Skjærseth, 2020. "Big Oil and Climate Regulation: Business as Usual or a Changing Business?," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 20(4), pages 143-166, Autumn.

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