Publications Per-Olof Busch Peer-Reviewed Contributions to Academic Books and Journals In preparation Explaining the Convergence of the Sustainability Principle, in Helge Jörgens, Andrea Lenschow und Duncan Liefferink (Eds.), Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe. The Impact of International Institutions and Trade. Cambridge University Press, accepted by editors, with Helge Taming the Tiger in the Tank: Explaining the Convergence of Limit Values for Lead in Petrol, in Helge Jörgens, Andrea Lenschow and Duncan Liefferink (Eds.), Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe. The Impact of International Institutions and Trade, accepted by editors. 2009 Treaty secretariats in global environmental governance, in Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhüner, and Anna Schreyögg (Eds.), International organizations in global environmental governance, London: Routledge, p. 174-192, with Steffen Bauer and Bernd Siebenhüner. The Climate Secretariat: Making a Living in a Straitjacket, in Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner (Eds.), Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, p. 245-264. The OECD Environment Directorate: The Art of Persuasion and its Limitations, in Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner (Eds.), Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, p. 75-100. Studying the influence of international bureaucracies. A conceptual framework, in Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner (Eds.), Managers of Global Change. The Influence of International environmental bureaucracies, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, p. 37-74, with Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhüner, Steffen Bauer, Sabine Campe, Klaus Dingwerth, Torsten Grothmann, Robert Marschinski, and Mireia Tarradell. 2007 Einleitung: Politik und Umwelt Herausforderungen und Fragestellungen in der Umweltpolitikforschung [Introduction: Politiccs and environment Challenges and questions in the environmental policy analysis], in Poltische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 39: Politik und Umwelt [Special issue 39: Politics and environment], with K. Jacob, P. H. Feindt und F. Biermann (ISI Journal Citation Reports impact factor in : 0.238), in press. Internationaler Umweltpolitikwandel und Konvergenz [International policy chane and convergence in environmental policy], in Poltische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 39: Politik und Umwelt [Special issue 39: Politics and environment], with Helge Jörgens (ISI Journal Citation Reports impact factor in : 0.238), in press. Dezentrale Politikkoordination im internationalen System. Ursachen, Mechanismen und Wirkungen der internationalen Diffusion politischer Innovationen [Decentralized policy coordination in the international system. Causes, mechanisms, and effects of the diffusion of policy innovations], in Poltische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 38: Transfer, Diffusion und Konvergenz von Politiken [Special issue 38: Transfer, diffusion, and convergence of policies]: p. 56-84, with Helge Jörgens (ISI Journal Citation Reports impact factor in : 0.238). The international sources of policy convergence: explaining the spread of environmental policy innovations, in Journal of European Public Policy 12 (5): p. 860-884, with H. Jörgens (ISI Journal Citation Reports impact factor in : 0.676). International Patterns of Environmental Policy Change and Convergence, in European Environment 15 (2): p. 80-101, with H.
The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Instruments: The Making of a New International Environmental Regime, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 598 (1): p. 146-167, with H. Jörgens and K. Tews (ISI Journal Citation Reports impact factor in : 0.480). Voluntary Approaches in Waste Management: The Case of the German ELV Program, in Theo de Bruijn and Vicki Norberg-Bohm (Eds.), Industrial Transformation. Environmental Policy Innovation in the United States and Europe. Cambridge: MIT Press, p. 93-118. 2004 The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Instruments: The Making of a New International Environmental Regime, in European Integration online Papers, Vol. 8 (21), http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2004-021a.htm, with H. Jörgens and K. Tews. The Diffusion of New Environmental Policy Instruments, in European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 41 (2): p. 569-600, with K. Tews and H. Jörgens (ISI Journal Citation Reports impact factor in : 0.476). Self-Commitment on the Collection and Recovery of Spent Batteries and the Reduction of Mercury Content in Batteries, in M. De Clerq (Ed.), Negotiated Environmental Agreements in Europe: Critical Factors for Success, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 67-86, with H. The Voluntary Pledge Regarding the Environmentally Sound Management of End-of-Life Vehicles, in M. De Clerq (Ed.), Negotiated Environmental Agreements in Europe: Critical Factors for Success, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 88-113, with H. Edited volumes 2007 Sonderheft 39: Politik und Umwelt [Special issue: Politics and environment], Politische Vierteljahresschrift 47, with Klaus Jacob, Peter Feindt und Frank Biermann, in press. Non Peer-Reviewed Contributions to Academic Books and Journals Institutionalisierter Politiktransfer mit Nebenwirkungen: die Ausbreitung von Quoten und Einspeisevergütungen [Institutionalisation of policy transfer and its side effects: the spread of quotas and feed-in tariffs], in Tews, Kerstin Martin Jänicke (Eds.), Die Diffusion umweltpolitischer Innovationen im internationalen System [The diffusion of environmental policy innovations in the international system], Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 233-255. Globale Diffusionsmuster umweltpolitischer Innovationen [Global Diffusion Patterns of Environmental Policy Innovations], in Tews, Kerstin Martin Jänicke (Eds.), Die Diffusion umweltpolitischer Innovationen im internationalen System [The diffusion of environmental policy innovations in the international system], Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 55-193, with H. Governance by diffusion? Potentials and restrictions for environmental policy diffusion, in Biermann, Frank, Rainer Brohm and Klaus Dingwerth (Eds.), Global environmental change and the nation state, Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, p. 169-183, with K. Tews. 2001 Planning for Sustainnable Development in Germany: The Former Front-Runner is Lagging behind, in Milieu, Vol. 16 (3): p. 124-140, with M. Jänicke, H. Jörgens, K. Jörgensen, and R. Nordbeck. Research and discussion papers 2006 The Secretariat to the Climate Convention: How to Make a Living in a Straightjacket, Global
Governance Working Paper No 22. Amsterdam et al.: The Global Governance Project. The OECD Environment Directorate: The Art of Persuasion and its Limitations, Global Governance Working Paper No 20. Amsterdam et al.: The Global Governance Project. Globale Diffusionsmuster umweltpolitischer Innovationen [Global Diffusion Patterns of Environmental Policy Innovations], Environmental Policy Research Centre, FFU Report 02-, with H. Modellkonkurrenz im Diffusionsprozess: Einspeisevergütungen und Quotenmodelle zur Förderung erneuerbarer Energieträger [Competing Models: The Diffusion of Feed-In-Tariffs and Quotas for Renewable Energy], Environmental Policy Research Centre, FFU-Report 03-. The Diffusion of New Environmental Policy Instruments, Environmental Policy Research Centre, FFU Report 01-, with K. Tews and H. Conference papers 2007 The Climate Change Secretariat: how to make a living in a straightjacket, Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: International Organisations and global environmental governance, December 2 3, Berlin, Germany. Modeling capacities of nation states: path dependencies and policy domains, Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Earth system governance: theories and strategies for sustainability, May 24 26, Amsterdam, Netherlands, with K. Jacob and N. Künkel. Pioneers in governance for sustainable development. Proposal for a theoretical framework, Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Earth system governance: theories and strategies for sustainability, May 24 26, Amsterdam, Netherlands, with K. Jacob and N. Künkel. Climate policies (the feasibility of) a statistical analysis: the Climate Policy Index, 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 28 March 3, Chicago, USA, with N. Künkel and K. Jacob. 2006 Climate policies (the feasibility of) a statistical analysis: the Climate Policy Index, Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Resource policies: effectiveness, efficiency, and equity, November 17 18, Berlin, Germany, with N. Künkel and K. Jacob. Managers of Global Change. The influences of international bureaucracies in environmental governance; 2006 Convention of the German Political Science Association: Staat und Gesellschaft Fähig zur Reform? [State and society capable to reform?], September 25 29, Münster, Germany. The Climate Change Secretariat: how to make a living in a straightjacket, Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: International Organisations and global environmental governance, December 2 3, Berlin, Germany. The OECD Environment Directorate: the art of persuasion, Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: International Organisations and global environmental governance, December 2 3, Berlin, Germany. Bureaucratic organizations in international environmental governance: administering our common future?, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE): Organizing the world rules and rule-setting among organizations, October 15 17, with S. Bauer and B. Siebenhüner. International sources of cross-national policy convergence and their interactions, World International
Studies Committee, First Global International Studies Conference, August 24 27, Istanbul, Turkey, with H. International sources of cross-national policy convergence and their interactions, ECPR, Granada Joint Sessions of Workshops: Workshop #20: Pioneers and Convergence in National Environmental Policy: Concepts, Causes and Conditions, April 14 19, Granada, Spain, with H. International sources of cross-national policy convergence and their interactions, 46th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 1 5, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, with H. 2004 Governance by Diffusion: An Analytical Distinction of Three International Governance Mechanisms, 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 17-20, Montréal, Canada, with H. Governance by diffusion: a source of global policy change? Research Colloquium on Global Environmental Governance, Environmental Policy Research Centre, November 11, Berlin, with H. Governance by diffusion: an analytical distinction of three international governance mechanisms, ECPR General conference, September 18 21, Marburg, Germany, with H. Governance by diffusion: an analytical distinction of three international governance mechanisms, Convention of the German Political Science Association, September 22 25, Mainz, Germany, with H. International Organisations as Actors for the Sustainability Transition, Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition, December 6 7, Berlin, Germany, with S. Bauer. 2001 Governance by Diffusion? Potentials and Restrictions for Environmental Policy Diffusion,, Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Global Environmental Change and the Nation State, December 7 8, Berlin, Germany, with K. Tews. Voluntary Approaches in Waste Management The Case of the German ELV Program, International Workshop: Voluntary, Collaborative and Information-Based Policies: Lessons and Next Steps for Environmental and Energy Policy in the United States and Europe, May 10 12, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, with H. The Diffusion of New Environmental Policy Instruments, ECPR, 2001 Grenoble Joint Sessions of Workshops: Workshop #1: New Environmental Policy Instruments, April 6 11, Grenoble, France, with K. Tews, H. Jörgens Breaking the Deadlock - Voluntary Agreements and Regulatory Measures in German Waste Policy, (mit H. Jörgens), ECPR, 2001 Grenoble Joint Sessions of Workshops: Workshop #1: New Environmental Policy Instruments, April 6 11, Grenoble, France, with H. 2000 The Diffusion of Environmental Policy Innovations. A Contribution towards Globalising Environmental Policy, International Workshop: Diffusion of Environmental Policy Innovations, December 8 9, Berlin, Germany, with H. Jörgens, K. Kern, and K. Tews. Self-Commitment on the Collection and Recovery of Spent Batteries and the Reduction of Mercury Content in Batteries, NEAPOL Closing Conference: Negotiated Environmental Agreements: Policy Lessons to be Learned, November 30 December 1, Ghent, Belgium, with H. The Voluntary Pledge Regarding the Environmentally Sound Management of End-of-Life Vehicles,), NEAPOL Closing Conference: Negotiated Environmental Agreements: Policy Lessons to be Learned,
November 30 December 1, Ghent, Belgium, with H.