PUBLIC POLICY I（政）

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Subtitle	Effectiveness of environmental policies and regulations from perspectives of political science
Lecturer(s)	AOKI, KAZUMASU
Credit(s)	2
Academic Year/Semester	2024 Fall
Day/Period	Sat.4
Campus	Mita
Class Format	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
Registration Number	18265
Faculty/Graduate School	LAW
Department/Major	POLITICAL SCIENCE
Year Level	3, 4
Field	POLITICAL SCIENCE
Grade Type	This item will appear when you log in (Keio ID required).
Course Description	This course gives lectures mainly on political theory and positive analysis of public policy.
K-Number	FLP-PS-34233-211-06

Course Administrator	Faculty/Graduate School	FLP	LAW
Course Administrator	Department/Major	PS	POLITICAL SCIENCE
Main Course Number	Level	3	Third-year level coursework
	Major Classification	4	Major Field Course
	Minor Classification	23	Developmental - Politics and Society
	Subject Type	3	Elective subject
Supplemental Course Information	Class Classification	2	Lecture
	Class Format	1	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
	Language of Instruction	1	Japanese
Academic Discipline		06	Political science and related fields

Course Contents/Objectives/Teaching Method/Intended Learning Outcome

Today's advanced democracies broadly intervene in our socio-economy to solve varied public issues via policies and regulations. One typical example of such governmental involvement or engagement has been a series of measures to protect our environment. Mainly during the 1960s and 1970s, many pollution prevention programs were institutionalized and implemented through air and water pollutant emission standards whose compliance should ensure no harm to our health. As a more recent example, since the 1990s there has been a growing interest in economic incentive measures (also known as carbon pricing) to deal with climate change issues by reducing CO2 emissions. Such efforts are embodied as carbon taxation, emission cap-and-trade scheme, and so forth.

This course explores whether and how these environmental or climate policies and regulations can be effective by turning to theoretical perspectives and frameworks in modern political science, public policy studies, political economy, and transition studies. In doing so, the course makes systematic approaches toward how and to what extent democratic institutions, governance structures, and political and administrative processes affect the (im)possibilities of the policies and regulations formulated or implemented to prevent pollution and mitigate climate change.

While those environmental policy and regulatory programs should be founded on scientific findings and objective data, political and administrative dimensions, whose elements inevitably consist of various values, ideals, visions, and interests, must constantly be considered. Acknowledging that the matter is of such a complicated, ambivalent nature, the course examines what concerns and problems are caused concerning the current and future problem-solving capabilities of the relevant policy and regulatory programs carried out by the governments. Also, the course pays attention to how important the different characteristics between pollution prevention and climate change measures can be when seeking answers to such inquiries.

The primary teaching format of this course is lecturing. Remote teaching methods may also be used via Zoom or Microsoft Teams. The participants are always welcome to open their discussions and arguments to the class. The course topics planned may be modified by relevant current events occurring during the period of the time.