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Cass, Loren. "Measuring the Domestic Salience of International Environmental Norms: Climate Change Norms in German, British, and American Climate Policy Debates" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69575_index.html>

Cass, L. , 2005-03-05 "Measuring the Domestic Salience of International Environmental Norms: Climate Change Norms in German, British, and American Climate Policy Debates" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69575_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Scholars of international environmental relations have increasingly turned to international norms as critical variables shaping the international response to emergent environmental threats. The international norms literature has emphasized the role of persuasion and social learning among political leaders in the process of international norm emergence. However, in environmental affairs it is typically not sufficient for political leaders to be persuaded of the appropriateness of a norm for it to alter the behavior of a particular state. Rather, the norm must become embedded in domestic political discourse and eventually be incorporated into the foreign and domestic policies of the state. National leaders play a vital role in this process, but in most cases the norm must be accepted by a sufficient number of domestic actors for it to significantly alter national behavior. This paper seeks to address the links between international norm emergence and the translation of international norms into domestic political discourse and policy. Which norms will be translated into domestic policy and why? When is a norm likely to influence the formulation of domestic and foreign policy responses to an emerging problem? These questions point to the problem of determining norm strength or domestic norm salience. To what extent does an international norm constrain national behavior or create obligations for action? To what extent do political actors appeal to the norm to justify domestic policies or to block policy changes? In other words, how influential is the norm in shaping national political dialogue and behavior? Studying the domestic salience of international norms requires case studies that offer specific links between emergent international norms and domestic policy debates. Climate change provides important opportunities to study domestic norm salience. Climate policy touches upon a number of important policy areas, including energy, transportation, commerce, taxation, and foreign policy. Analytically linking the large number of actors, policy areas, and multiple levels of analysis is a daunting task. However, in order to gauge domestic norm salience, it is essential to evaluate the incorporation of international norms into the domestic and foreign policy responses across the full range of these policy areas. It is the ability to evaluate these complex relationships that provides the foundation for generating hypotheses regarding the forces affecting norm salience. The paper presents an eight point scale to measure the domestic salience of an international norm. This scale is then utilized to measure the evolution of the domestic salience of international climate change norms in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which should help to generate hypotheses regarding the forces affecting domestic norm salience.

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