Ein Vergleich von single- und multi-issue Umweltorganisationen in der Klimapolitik.

Abstract

The following dissertation examines, from an organizational point of view, processes of differentiation in the field of business<br />management. It investigates whether these processes of differentiation, which indicate a shift away from the Fordian mass<br />production towards a more flexible quality production, can also be observed amongst environmental associations. Besides, it<br />looks into what kind of consequences such processes of differentiation would have on the effectiveness of environmental<br />organizations.<br /><br />Two subfields of environmental politics are used to check the correctness of the assumption: the politics concerning the global<br />warming and the German domestic debate about an ecological tax reform. Especially the international negotiations over the<br />global warming that took place between 1995 and 1997 and the decision-making processes concerning an ecological tax<br />reform since the elections in 1994 are discussed.<br /><br />The results of this investigations confirm the conjecture that, on the part of environmental organizations, a differentiation has<br />occured between specialized organizations (single-issue organizations) and organizations with a more general thematic<br />orientation (multi-issue organizations). Furthermore, the two types seem to be faced with characteristic dilemmas. While<br />single-issue organizations display a degree of expertise that at least equals that of civil servants in the same sphere, multi-issue<br />organizations are typically a lot more well-known. Therefore, single-issue organizations focus on lobbying whereas multi-issue<br />organizations concentrate on public relations.