2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comparative Political Analysis on Global Environmental Network in Western and Asian Countries
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10302002
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUJINAKA Yutaka University of Tsukuba, Institute of Social Science, Professor (70145944)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KAWASHIMA Yasuko 国立環境研究所, Fellow researcher (10250101)
TSUBOGOU Minoru Waseda University, School of Social Science, Professor (20118061)
KUBO Fumiaki Keio University, School of Law, Professor (00126046)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2001
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| Keywords | global environmental policy / network analysis / interest group / comparative politics / NPO / NGO / global warming and Climate Change / actor |
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| Research Abstract |
The within study, also known as the GEPON (Global Environmental Policy Network) Study is conducted on the complex policy field using a network approach to undertake comparative and transnational surveys and analyses. This study aims to reveal the structural differences and features in each country's policy formation process for major nations in Europe and Asia, as well as the United States. For that reason, interviews targeting 75 (at least over 50) organizations were conducted in each country in Japan, the United States, Germany, South Korea, as well as other advanced nations, and involved international organizations as actors in the global environmental policy movement. In fact, over 100 associations, organizations, and institutes from each of Japan, South Korea, Germany, and the United States could be surveyed. The survey items can be divided into four main sections : Section 1 concerning information exchange relationship (network) and resource exchange relationship (network) among
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target organizations ; Section 2 concerning the main events in environmental policy from the 1980s until the time of conducting the survey (between the and of 1997 and 2000) and the position of the target organization in regards to these issues ; Section 3 concerning information about the internal structure of the target organizations ; and Section 4, concerning a survey of the network relationships among international organizations. Through this survey and analysis, mainly aimed at all actor groups, the study inquires as to how each country's global environmental policy is formed by identifying the domestic and international information and resource exchange processes. Each actor group can be distinguished in terms of whether there is policy recognition incorporating all features and can be located in terms of comparative politics. Through this analysis, the differences in global environmental policy for each country as well as each international organization can be structurally explained or the significance of structural factors can be specified. This research is a full-scale "comparative" and "network analysis" approach to "global environmental policy," and in regards to these three points, is a particularly valuable empirical analysis. Not only does this investigation identify structural differences among each country in this field, but even from the standpoint of political science, it is an ambitious study that reveals the structural interpenetration of international and domestic politics encompassing NGOs to international organizations within large-scale global network structures. Related case studies were also included in the report concerning this research. Less
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