TY - JOUR
T1 - The genesis and end of institutional fragmentation in global governance on climate change from a constructivist perspective
AU - Oh, Chaewoon
AU - Matsuoka, Shunji
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors greatly appreciate the Ministry of Environment of Japan for research support. This paper was prepared within the project, titled Design of International Low Carbon Institution in Asia (S-6-3(4)), under the Governance Design Research Project (S-6-3) of the Asia Low Carbon Society Research Project (S-6). More details about the project can be found at http://2050.nies.go.jp/index_j.html .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Global governance on climate change experienced institutional fragmentation by the generation of a competing institution, the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP), in 2005, outside the previously dominant institutions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Why was a competing institution created beside the extant dominant institutions in a singular international issue area? This puzzling question on the genesis of institutional fragmentation has been theoretically explored through international relation theories. However, a full-fledged answer has not come yet. This paper explains the genesis of institutional fragmentation on the theoretical grounds of constructivism’s normative contestation for strategic social construction. Results show that the APP was created by a norm entrepreneur as an organizational platform to embody normative contestation and diffuse the competing normative interpretations of climate change norms.
AB - Global governance on climate change experienced institutional fragmentation by the generation of a competing institution, the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP), in 2005, outside the previously dominant institutions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Why was a competing institution created beside the extant dominant institutions in a singular international issue area? This puzzling question on the genesis of institutional fragmentation has been theoretically explored through international relation theories. However, a full-fledged answer has not come yet. This paper explains the genesis of institutional fragmentation on the theoretical grounds of constructivism’s normative contestation for strategic social construction. Results show that the APP was created by a norm entrepreneur as an organizational platform to embody normative contestation and diffuse the competing normative interpretations of climate change norms.
KW - Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
KW - Climate change regime
KW - Genesis of institutional fragmentation
KW - Norm entrepreneur
KW - Normative contestation
KW - Strategic social construction
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U2 - 10.1007/s10784-015-9309-2
DO - 10.1007/s10784-015-9309-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84945208901
SN - 1567-9764
VL - 17
SP - 143
EP - 159
JO - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
JF - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
IS - 2
ER -
