Do New Zealand select committees still make a difference? The case of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill 2019

IF 1.2 4区 社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Science Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI:10.1080/00323187.2021.2019591
W. Dreyer, Elisabeth Ellis
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ABSTRACT An emerging consensus among scholars of environmental politics includes public participation in the legislative process as a critical condition of the transition to sustainability. The select committee process in Aotearoa New Zealand has long been celebrated for its apparent openness to public participation. We examine the select committee process as it functioned in the case of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill 2019, employing a quantitative analysis that mapped categories of submitters’ policy propositions through the constant comparative method, and compare them against the recommendations of the majority and minority perspectives of the Environment Select Committee. In addition, we compare the majority and minority recommendations to the Departmental Report. The results of this case study incline us to question the assumption that submitters have influence with select committees and the extent of committee deliberation. If the transition to sustainability depends on the government’s capacity for transformative change, and that capacity in turn depends on the strength of its deliberative system, then our study provides some reason to worry about the capacity of government in Aotearoa New Zealand to respond to the challenge of climate change.
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新西兰的专责委员会还能发挥作用吗?《2019年气候变化应对(零碳)修正法案》案例
环境政治学者之间正在形成一种共识,即公众参与立法过程是向可持续性过渡的关键条件。新西兰奥特罗阿的特别委员会程序长期以来一直因其对公众参与的明显开放性而备受赞誉。我们研究了特别委员会在《2019年气候变化应对(零碳)修正案法案》中的运作情况,采用定量分析方法,通过持续比较方法绘制了提交者政策主张的类别,并将其与环境特别委员会多数和少数观点的建议进行了比较。此外,我们会将多数和少数建议与部门报告进行比较。本案例研究的结果使我们怀疑提交者对特别委员会有影响力的假设以及委员会审议的程度。如果向可持续发展的过渡取决于政府进行变革的能力,而这种能力又取决于其审议制度的强度,那么我们的研究提供了一些理由来担心新西兰政府应对气候变化挑战的能力。
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