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Benjamin Hofmann
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Dr.
Last Name
Hofmann
First name
Benjamin
Email
benjamin.hofmann@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 3980
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Political GeographyVolume: 94
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PublicationFollowing, Challenging, or Shaping: Can Third Countries Influence EU Energy Policy?( 2019-03)
;Jevnaker, TorbjørgType: journal articleJournal: Politics and GovernanceVolume: 7Issue: 1 -
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PublicationTechnological Arguing: How New Business Practices Shape the International Environmental Regulation of Maritime Shipping( 2018-11-05)This paper examines how technological innovation can lead to stringent international environmental regulation. It introduces the explanatory concept of technological arguing to the study of business actors in global environmental politics. The starting point of technological arguing is the observation that technology and innovation are frequently contested. Technological arguing refers to the deliberation of competing arguments about the state of technology and the room that innovation provides for regulatory action. Power in technological arguing results from corporate expertise and credible references to existing or emerging business practices. The paper empirically probes the explanatory power of technological arguing against neo-Gramscian and neo-pluralist approaches. It examines the development of new nutrient removal standards for discharges of sewage from ships into the Baltic Sea by the Helsinki Commission and International Maritime Organization. The findings of the paper suggest that technological arguing forms a distinct causal mechanism in regulatory policy-making.Type: conference paper
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PublicationUnderstanding the Design of International Environmental Regulations: The Concept of Stringency( 2017-01)The paper develops a new empirically based concept of stringency to capture the formal and substantive design of public international environmental regulations. It is argued that both the form and substance of regulations matter for eliciting compliance and for their effectiveness. Existing typologies of regulatory design from International Relations, International Law, and Economics do not address these dimensions comprehensively and systematically enough, or are not yet operationalized. Stringency is defined here as the product of the formal tightness and substantive ambition of regulations. Tightness refers to the legality, precision, and monitoring and enforcement system of a regulation. Ambition covers changes in substantive scope, as well as in the level of requirements compared to prior regulation, and to regulation elsewhere on the globe. Indicators are proposed to operationalize each of the six sub-dimensions. A two-tiered, multi-dimensional stringency index is constructed to aggregate the sub-dimension scores on an ordinal scale. The continuum from stringent to lax regulations is illustrated with empirical examples from the area of international environmental regulations of maritime industries in the Arctic. Stringent regulations remain in many contexts the final aim of regulatory trajectories, but international regulators can choose from different design blends to pave ways towards them. The concept of regulatory stringency invites new research on the drivers of international environmental regulation, on its relation with globalization processes, and on its political, economic and ecological effects.Type: conference paper
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PublicationThe International Environmental Regulation of Maritime Industries: The Concept of Stringency and a New Database in the Making( 2016-07-10)The paper conceptually and empirically explores the design of public international regulations of environmental impacts of business activities in transboundary contexts. It proposes a new concept of regulatory stringency to fill gaps in existing typologies of regulatory design from International Relations, International Law, and Economics. Stringency is defined as the tightness (or legalization) and ambition (or depth) of regulations, and operationalized through a two-tiered, multi-dimensional ordinal scale index. The usefulness of this concept and its operationalization is demonstrated by a newly compiled database that describes empirical variance in the stringency of public international environmental regulations of maritime industries, including maritime shipping and offshore energy production. The architecture and added value of the database is illustrated with examples from international regulations in sea regions such the Arctic, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean, and the North-East Atlantic. It is argued that maritime environmental regulations may serve as crucial case for assessing the explanatory power of competing hypotheses on the drivers of international regulation. The paper outlines puzzles that emerge from the data, and proposes an empirical strategy for future causal inquiry.Type: conference paper
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PublicationEuropeanization of the Swiss Energy System(Dike Verlag, 2020)Type: bookVolume: 13
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