Climate Policy and Democracy
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2021-06-12
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Throughout Europe, structures of policy intermediation processes are changing. These changes have led to the repeated prediction of the death of neo-corporatist structures in general (e.g. Schmitter, 1989), and the introduction of the term poldermodel 2.0 in the Netherlands more specifically. In this thesis, the case of the climate tables is analysed as an extreme case of these changes in the structures of policy intermediation processes. Using an abductive method, theories of neo-corporatism and deliberative democracy have been combined to analyse the empirical dynamics of this poldermodel 2.0. Theories of input, throughput and output legitimacy have subsequently been used to analyse the meaning of these changes in the poldermodel for the level of democracy of the Dutch political system. Multiple methods have been used, among which several semi-structured interviews and descriptive statistics. This thesis shows that the structural design of the poldermodel has indeed changed, and that new social partners play important roles. These developments influence the dynamics and the outcome of the process. The climate tables score insufficient on all three types of legitimacy. Therefore, a proposal for a more legitimate poldermodel 2.0 is included in this thesis. This thesis adds to the literature by offering a different approach to policy intermediation processes, which embraces the diversity of theories in the literature, and allows to make normative statements about empirical findings.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen