ABSTRACT

In 2009, Scotland passed, at the time, the world’s most ambitious climate change legislation, gaining significance due to its high-reaching targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a complex bureaucratic set-up. It was the most complex legislation to pass through the Scottish Parliament since its inception, and a landmark bill of the Scottish National Party’s first term in government. Based on documentary research and interviews with policymakers and stakeholders, I use the Multiple Streams Model against the context of multi-level governance to analyse the emergence of the Climate Change Act in Scotland and what factors influenced its form, analysing problem, policy, and politics streams as well as structural and cultural-institutional entrepreneurship. The Act’s creation was tied up in attempts to position Scotland, a sub-state nation, on the international stage, with the legislation framed not only as necessary in the face of climate change, but an opportunity for Scotland.

摘要

2009 年，苏格兰通过了当时世界上最雄心勃勃的气候变化立法，由于其减少温室气体排放的高影响目标和复杂的官僚机构设置而变得意义重大。这是苏格兰议会自成立以来通过的最复杂的立法，也是苏格兰民族党第一届政府的里程碑式法案。基于文献研究和对政策制定者和利益相关者的采访，我在多层次治理的背景下使用多流模型来分析苏格兰气候变化法案的出现以及影响其形式的因素，分析问题、政策和政治流以及结构和文化机构创业。该法案的制定是为了将苏格兰定位为一个次国家，