This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies. This title is also available as Open Access.

Part I. Introduction: 1. The politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform: an introduction Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt; Part II. The Scope of the Challenge: 2. Defining and measuring fossil fuel subsidies Doug Koplow; 3. Reforming fossil fuel subsidies: the art of the possible Shelagh Whitley and Laurie van der Burg; 4. The political economy of incumbency: fossil fuel subsidies in global and historical context Peter Newell and Phil Johnstone; Part III. The International Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform: 5. Fossil fuel subsidy reform: an international norm perspective Thijs Van de Graaf and Mathieu Blondeel; 6. International push, domestic reform? The influence of international economic institutions on fossil fuel subsidy reform Jakob Svovgaard; 7. Fossil fuel subsidies and the global trade regime Ronald Steenblik, Jehan Sauvage and Christina Timiliotis; 8. Fossil fuel subsidies and the global climate regime Harro van Asselt, Laura Merrill and Kati Kulovesi; 9. Anatomy of an international norm entrepreneur: the friends of fossil fuel subsidy reform Vernon Rive; 10. The global subsidies initiative: catalytic actors and the politics of fossil fuel subsidy reform Nathan Lemphers, Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann; Part IV. The Domestic Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform: 11. Fossil fuel subsidy reform in Indonesia: the struggle for successful reform Kathryn Chelminski; 12. Lessons from the world's largest subsidy benefit transfer scheme: the case of liquefied petroleum gas subsidy reform in India Abhishek Jain, Shalu Agrawal and Karthik Ganesan; 13. Sustaining carbon lock-in: fossil fuel subsidies in South Africa Jesse Burton, Tawney Lott and Britta Rennkamp; 14. The politics of subsidies to coal extraction in Colombia Claudia Strambo, Ana Carolina González Espinosa, Angélica Puertas Velasco and Aaron Atteridge; 15. Reforming Egypt's fossil fuel subsidies in the context of a changing social contract Tom S. H. Moerenhout; 16. Actors, frames and contexts in fossil fuel subsidy reform: the case of Trinidad and Tobago Michelle Scobie; Part V. Synthesis and Conclusions: 17. Conclusions and ways forward Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt; Index.