TY  - JOUR
AU  - Uygur, Mehmet Recai
AU  - Sever, Fatma
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/22
TI  - Regime Type and Environmental Adaptation: A Theoretical Examination of Political Constraints on Ecological Governance
JO  - Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research
SP  - 014
VL  - 07
IS  - 02
AB  - This Perspective revises the Regime-Constraint-Adaptation (RCA) framework to clarify that environmental adaptation is not explained by regime labels alone, nor by a normative comparison between democracy and autocracy. Governance is treated more narrowly as the selection, calibration, implementation, and correction of policy instruments in relation to legally defined ecological objectives and observed ecological outcomes. The revised argument integrates RCA with the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework: monitoring and disclosure technologies shape signal quality; organizational capacity and stakeholder structures shape implementation; and the wider institutional environment, including regime constraints, policy mandates, and social-cultural motives, shapes whether instruments become ecologically effective. The article also introduces configurational reasoning inspired by fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), because high adaptation may arise through different combinations of transparency, decision centralization, technology, capacity, legal accountability, and behavioral alignment. The contribution is therefore conceptual and diagnostic. It does not claim to present empirical testing. Still, it refines testable propositions, operational indicators, boundary conditions, and short illustrative cases from China, Europe, and Southeast Asia to show how the framework can guide future comparative research.
SN  - 2766-6190
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/aeer.2602014
DO  - 10.21926/aeer.2602014
ID  - Uygur2026
ER  -