ENVIPOLCON

Data source: Holzinger, Knill, Sommerer

Description:

ENVIPOLCON is the acronym of "Environmental governance in Europe: the impact of international institutions and trade on policy convergence". The project was carried out between 2003 and 2006 by the University of Konstanz, University of Hamburg, Germany, Free University of Berlin, University of Salzburg, and Radboud University Nijmegen. The project was supported by the EU, RTD programme "Improving the human research potential and the socioeconomic knowledge base", contract no. HPSE-CT-2002-00103.

This compilation only includes data on policy instrument adoption from ENVIPOLCON. Each of the instrument variables is coded with scores ranging from 1= obligatory standard to 10 = voluntary instrument. 0 = no instrument because no policy was in place yet. For the variable on the promotion of renewable energy (e.g. ener_i7) the additional instrument "legal obligation to purchase that electricity" was coded as = 11.

Other variables from ENVIPOLCON are included into the extension of the dataset - ENVIPOLCONCHANGE, which is also a part of this compilation.

Citation:

    @incollection{epc1,
 address = {Cambridge},
 author = {Heichel, Stephan and Holzinger, Katharina and Sommerer, Thomas and Liefferink, Duncan and Pape, Jessica and Veenman, Sietske},
 booktitle = {Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe: The Impact of International Institutions and Trade},
 editor = {Holzinger, Katharina and Knill, Christoph and Jörgens, Helge},
 note = {Date accessed: 24 March 2020},
 pages = {64--97},
 publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
 title = {Research design, variables and data},
 url = {https://www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/en/holzinger/research/research-projects/enviromental-policy-convergence-in-europe-envipolcon/project-deliverables/},
 year = {2008}
}


    

Variables in this dataset: