Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Political Strategies for Climate Policy Hugh Compston Technique 2. Risk Analysis and Climate Change Nick Pidgeon and Catherine Butler 3. A Strategy for Better Climate Change Regulation: Towards a Public Interest Orientated Regulatory Regime Ian Bartle 4. The (non-)Politics of Managing Low Carbon Socio-Technical Transitions Ivan Scrase and Adrian Smith Politics 5. Networks, Resources, Political Strategy and Climate Policy Hugh Compston 6. Political Strategy and Climate Policy: A Rational Choice Perspective Frank Grundig Communications 7. Addressing Climate Change: A Media Perspective Neil T. Gavin 8. Agenda-Setting and Climate Change Sarah B. Pralle 9. Clearing the Air: The Contribution of Frame Analysis to Understanding Climate Policy in the United States Amy Lynn Fletcher

About the Author

Hugh Compston is Reader in Politics in the School of European Studies at Cardiff University, UK. Major publications include Policy Networks and Policy Change (Palgrave, 2009), Turning Down the Heat: The Politics of Climate Policy in Affluent Democracies (ed. with Ian Bailey, Palgrave, 2008), King Trends and the Future of Public Policy (Palgrave, 2006), Handbook of Public Policy in Europe: Britain, France and Germany (edited, Palgrave, 2004), Social Partnership in the European Union (edited with Justin Greenwood, Palgrave, 2001), Policy Concertation and Social Partnership (edited with Stefan Berger, Berghahn, 2002), and The New Politics of Unemployment (edited, Routledge, 1996) as well as numerous journal articles on public policy and political economy.