3. "Das Maß ist voll!"

Marg, Stine; Zilles, Julia; Schwarz, Carolin; Hoeft, Christoph; Messinger-Zimmer, Sören

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“…The aim of the initiatives is to avoid or at least mitigate the negative impacts of the project by trying to influence those responsible for crucial decisions. Ogilvie and Rootes [13] as well as Marg et al [14] provide many examples of how such initiatives are organised along with their various forms of action.…”

Section: The Literature On Local Anti-wind Protests-the Research Gapmentioning

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The politics of energy landscapes: the influence of local anti-wind initiatives on state policies in Saxony, Germany

Lintz

Leibenath

2020

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: In recent years, landscapes in many countries have been transformed by efforts to fight global warming, specifically the shift towards renewable energies such as wind power. This development has been met by growing opposition from local citizens and their initiatives. There is an ongoing debate about whether and how such protests have a real impact on the development of energy landscapes. Methods: Drawing on the rare case of a state government scaling back ambitious targets for the expansion of renewables, the authors were able to analyse the impact of protests in the context of regional spatial planning and, particularly, state policy-making on energy. Conceptually drawing on the Advocacy Coalition Framework and using the method of causal-process tracing, the qualitative study investigates related interactions and decision-making processes in the federal state of Saxony, Germany, between 2011-when targets were increased-and 2013when targets were scaled back. Results: The findings show that the protests grew significantly when the raised expansion targets for renewables were translated into a higher number of potential wind farm sites. The protests, which primarily referred to landscapes, were well-organised and creative. Activists worked through a range of channels across various contexts and several levels of the politico-administrative system, in particular approaching regional spatial planners and a wide range of politicians. In the end, the protests (along with other factors) significantly contributed to the readjustment by the Saxon coalition government of its energy and climate policy and thus to a slowdown of energy-related landscape change. Conclusions: The study confirms that the influence of protesters can greatly exceed the previously studied participation in the planning of sites and the approval process for individual wind farms. Also highlighting other relevant co-influential factors, the paper contributes to the development of a middle-range theory of the impact of local opposition to wind power in the context of energy landscapes.

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Section: The Literature On Local Anti-wind Protests-the Research Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

The politics of energy landscapes: the influence of local anti-wind initiatives on state policies in Saxony, Germany

Lintz

Leibenath

2020

Energ Sustain Soc

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Global warming and polarization. Wind turbines and the electoral success of the greens and the populist radical right

Otteni

Weisskircher

2021

European J Political Res

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The increased salience of environmental concerns, first and foremost global warming, is one of the key developments of contemporary Western European politics. Still, the effects of global warming issues on electoral outcomes, party competition and polarization remain poorly understood. Our article shows how the construction of wind turbines fuels conflict between its key proponents and opponents, Green and populist radical right parties. Contention over the issue contributes to the electoral success of both sides and therefore reinforces the new central divide between them. Drawing on a novel dataset, we investigate the impact of the construction of wind turbines on Alternative für Deutschland and Green party electoral success in Germany. We employ a two‐way fixed effects model, where the construction of wind turbines functions as the independent variable. We show that the construction of wind turbines boosts the electoral support of both their biggest supporters and their biggest opponents. Our results have important implications for understanding contemporary political conflict in Western Europe such as the electoral rise of the Greens and the populist radical right, the importance of issue salience and the polarization of party systems.

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3. "Das Maß ist voll!"

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The politics of energy landscapes: the influence of local anti-wind initiatives on state policies in Saxony, Germany

The politics of energy landscapes: the influence of local anti-wind initiatives on state policies in Saxony, Germany

Global warming and polarization. Wind turbines and the electoral success of the greens and the populist radical right

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