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We collect data at the level of the organizational field from the full range of domestic and international organizations affecting the national CC policy making or social influence processes.  Network data permits a more fine-grained and systematic testing of hypotheses about the social factors that affect the national CC response and decision-making processes.  The most important factor concerns the acceptance and action framing of IPCC-type scientific CC evidence and projections.  The second factor concerns the social and political empowerment of those frames. 

Our hypotheses (stated in network-testable terms) include:

1. The presence of venues for egalitarian stakeholder participation will increase the diffusion of IPCC-type scientific information and increase its empowerment;
2. The empowerment of contrarian views will depend upon the number and network centrality of fossil-fuel dependent interest groups;
3. The greater the network centrality of climate science actors in national information, negotiation and trust networks, the stronger the national mitigation response;
4. The higher the cultural legitimacy of domestic climate science actors, the stronger the national mitigation response.

Additional Information at www.compon.org