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Towards an Institutional and Historical Analysis of Environmental Policy in Madagascar
Author(s) -
Froger Géraldine,
Méral Philippe
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
environmental policy and governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.987
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1756-9338
pISSN - 1756-932X
DOI - 10.1002/eet.1595
Subject(s) - historical institutionalism , institutionalism , environmental policy , path dependence , institutional analysis , new institutionalism , reproduction , institutional change , institutional theory , sociology , political science , political economy , positive economics , economic geography , regional science , economics , social science , ecology , neoclassical economics , public administration , environmental resource management , law , politics , biology
This article explores the application of ideas from historical institutionalism about path dependence to the study of environmental policy in Madagascar. It first reviews the central components of the historical institutionalism explanation, including the concepts of critical juncture, institutional change and institutional reproduction. This explanation is then applied to an analysis of the “diverging” trajectories of environmental policy in Madagascar during the 20th and 21th centuries. We argue that several historical and institutional events, at the national and international levels, have been critical junctures after which Malagasy environmental policy has shifted to different paths. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.