Phillip Y. Lipscy Winter, 2012-2013 email: plipscy@stanford.edu Office Hours: By Appointment Office: Encina Hall, West 411 Political Science 19N Politics of Energy Efficiency Course Description Sophomore Seminar (5 units). We will examine the political context of energy efficiency and climate change. Why are some countries, such as Japan and France, able to achieve high levels of energy efficiency, while others, such as the United States and Australia, struggle to do so? What political factors facilitate or impede energy efficiency policies? Why is international cooperation on climate change so difficult? Course Requirements Participation (40%): You should come to class prepared to actively discuss the readings for the session. Final Paper (60%): A 20 page research paper (4000-6000 words) related to the class material (Due: March 22). The instructor will provide suggested paper topics. Students will present their preliminary research to the class. General Policies Active participation in class discussions is required absences must be cleared prior to the session with the instructor. Unexcused absences will result in a half letter grade reduction in the student s final grade (e.g., A A-, etc.). Late assignments will be penalized by half a letter grade each day the assignment is late. Prerequisites There are no formal prerequisites. Readings Readings will be made available on course work.
Overview of Topics Week 1 (1/8) Introduction / Overview Week 2 (1/15) Approaches to the Study of the Politics of Energy Week 3 (1/22) Politics of Energy in Developed Countries I Week 4 (1/29) Politics of Energy in Developed Countries II Week 5 (2/12) The Politics of Resource Production & OPEC Week 6 (2/19) Climate Change Week 7 (2/26) Case Study: Japan Week 8 (3/5) Case Study: Europe Week 9 (3/12) Case Study: China 3/22: Final Paper Due at 5pm Students with Documented Disabilities: Students who may need an academic accommodation based on the impact of a disability must initiate the request with the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) located within the Office of Accessible Education (OAE). SDRC staff will evaluate the request with required documentation, recommend reasonable accommodations, and prepare an Accommodation Letter for faculty dated in the current quarter in which the request is being made. Students should contact the SDRC as soon as possible since timely notice is needed to coordinate accommodations. The OAE is located at 563 Salvatierra Walk, phone (650) 723-1066.
Week 1: Introduction & Overview Week 2: Approaches to the Study of the Politics of Energy & Energy Efficiency Llewelyn Hughes and Phillip Lipscy. 2013. The Politics of Energy Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 16. Garrett Hardin. 1968. Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162: 1243-1248. Thomas Schelling. 2006. Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays. Chapters 2-4. Lenny Bernstein et al. 2007. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Daniel Yergin. 2006. Ensuring Energy Security Foreign Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 2. Week 3: Politics of Energy in Developed Countries I Peter Katzenstein. 1977. Introduction: Domestic and International Forces of Foreign Economic Policy. International Organization Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 587-606. G. John Ikenberry. The Irony of State Strength: Comparative Responses to the Oil Shocks in the 1970s, International Organization Vol. 40, No. 1, (1986), pp. 105-137. Moran, Theodore H., Managing an Oligopoly of Would-Be Sovereigns: The Dynamics of Joint Control and Self- Control in the International Oil Industry Past, Present, and Future, International Organization Vol. 41 No. 4 (1987), pp. 575-607. Stephen D. Krasner, Defending the National Interest: Raw Materials Investments and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1978), pp. 245-273. Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 217-240. Week 4: Politics of Energy in Developed Countries II Michèle B. Bättig and Thomas Bernauer. National Institutions and Global Public Goods: Are Democracies More Cooperative in Climate Change Policy? International Organization Vol. 63 No. 2 (2009), pp. 281-308. Michael Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen. 2011. The Strategy of Sustainable Energy Transitions: Political Competition and Path Dependence. Working Paper, Colombia University. Llewelyn Hughes and Francisco Flores-Macias. 2012. Drill, Baby, Drill! The Correlates of Energy Independence Policy in the United States. Working Paper, George Washington University. Phillip Lipscy. 2012. The Electoral Politics of Energy Efficiency, Working Paper, Stanford University.
J. Lawrence Broz and Daniel Maliniak. 2009. Malapportionment, Gasoline Taxes, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society. College Station, TX. Week 5: The Politics of Resource Production & OPEC Mccartan Humphreys, Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz. 2007. Escaping the Resource Curse. New York: Columbia University Press, Introduction. Thad Dunning. 2008. Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes. Cambridge University Press, Introduction. Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo. 2011. Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse. American Political Science Review Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 1-26. James M. Griffin. 1985. OPEC Behavior: A Test of Alternative Hypotheses. The American Economic Review Vol. 75, No. 5, pp. 954-963. Jeff Colgan. 2011. The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Limits of OPEC in the Global Oil Market. Working Paper, American University. Week 6: Climate Change Jana von Stein. 2008. The International Law and Politics of Climate Change. Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 243-68. Phillip Lipscy. 2012. The Political Economy of Energy Efficiency. Working Paper, Stanford University. Michael Bechtel and Kenneth Scheve. 2012. Public Support for Global Climate Cooperation. Working Paper, Stanford University Dustin Tingley and Michael Tomz. 2012. Conditional Cooperation and Climate Change. Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies. David G. Victor, Charles F. Kennel, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, 2012 The Climate Threat We Can Beat: What It Is and How to Deal With It, Foreign Affairs May/June. Week 7: Case Study - Japan Richard Samuels. 1987. The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Excerpts. Llewelyn Hughes. 2012. Climate Converts: Institutional Redeployment and Public Investment in Energy and Environment in Japan, Journal of East Asian Studies Vol. 12, No.1, pp. 89-118. Phillip Lipscy and Lee Schipper. 2013. Energy Efficiency in the Japanese Transport Sector. Energy Policy, Forthcoming.
Daniel Aldrich. 2008. Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 119-151. Phillip Lipscy and Kenji Kushida. 2012. Japan s Nuclear Plant Vulnerability in Comparative Perspective, Working Paper, Stanford University. Week 8: Case Study European Union European Environment Agency. 2012. Greenhouse Gas Emission Trends and Projections in Europe 2012. EEA Report No. 6. Miranda A. Schreurs and Yves Tiberghien. 2007. Multi-Level Reinforcement: Explaining European Union Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation. Global Environmental Politics 7 (4): 19-46. Peter Markussen and Gert Tinggard Svendsen. 2003. Industry Lobbying and the Political Economy of GHG Trade in the European Union. Energy Policy 33: 245-255. Staffan Jacobsson and Volkmar Lauber. 2006. The Politics and Policy of Energy System Transformation: Explaining the German Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technology. Energy Policy 34 (3): 256-276. Norichika Kanie. 2003. Leadership in Multilateral Negotiation and Domestic Policy: The Netherlands and the Kyoto Protocol Negotiation. International Negotiation 8: 339-365. Week 9: Case Study China UNFCCC. 2007. Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation in Developing Countries. Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC): Bonn, Germany. Philip Andrews-Speed. 2009. China s Ongoing Energy Efficiency Drive: Origins, Progress and Prospects, Energy Policy 37: 1331-1344. Erica S. Downs. 2004. The Chinese Energy Security Debate, The China Quarterly 177: 21-41. David Zweig and Bi Jianhai. 2005. China s Global Hunt for Energy, Foreign Affairs 84 (5). Jonathan B. Wiener. 2008. Climate Change Policy and Policy Change in China, UCLA Law Review 1805. 3/22: Final Paper Due at 5pm