Hayley Stevenson's Website

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hayley Stevenson is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Political Science Program. Her research interests span global environmental politics (with a particular focus on climate change), international norms, global governance, and theories of international relations (with a particular interest in constructivism).
 
In early 2009, Hayley completed her PhD in the School of History and Politics, at the University of Adelaide. Her doctoral research was an analysis of the diffusion of international climate governance norms, and included case studies of Australia, India, and Spain. This analysis revealed a significant paradox in global climate governance: successful global action to avoid climate change depends on states complying with international agreements, but the present system induces states to comply with global norms in ways that actually exacerbate unsustainable development. Hayley now seeks to attract greater attention to this paradox in global climate governance by developing her work into a book.
 
Hayley joined the Political Science Program in March 2009 and is working on Professor John Dryzek’s Federation Fellowship project: Deliberative Global Governance. This project includes a study of the global governance of climate change, and the potential for enhancing its deliberative capacity. In this context, Hayley is mapping the global deliberative system for governing climate change, and evaluating the deliberation that occurs within this system in terms of its authenticity, inclusivity, and consequentiality. The specific period being analysed is 2008-2009, during which a new global agreement is being negotiated to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.