Pathways to policy: Partisanship and bipartisanship in renewable energy legislation

Brown, Kate Pride; Hess, David J.

doi:10.1080/09644016.2016.1203523

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“…That is because all relevant actors would prefer a change of the policy status quo. If a goal is partisan, a condition for policy change is that the goal is central for the governing party or coalition (Brown & Hess, 2016;Osofsky & Peel, 2016). Although there is a lot of literature on the politics of energy transitions, especially on Germany (Jacobsson & Lauber, 2006;Kungl, 2015;Quitzow, Roehrkasten, & Jaenicke, 2016;Renn & Marshall, 2016), thus far, very little is known about the relative importance of the different energy policy goals (Joas, Pahle, Flachsland, & Joas, 2016) and discourses around them (Leipprand, Flachsland, & Pahle, 2017), especially concerning how these goals are related to political partisanship and the propensity for policy change.…”

Section: Limit Cost Of Energymentioning

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Policy goals, partisanship and paradigmatic change in energy policy – analyzing parliamentary discourse in Germany over 30 years

Schmidt¹,

Schmid²,

Sewerin³

2019

Climate Policy

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The successful implementation of the Paris Agreement requires substantial energy policy change on the national level. In national energy policy-making, climate change mitigation goals have to be balanced with arguments on other national energy policy goals, namely limiting cost and increasing energy security. Thus far, very little is known about the relative importance of these goals and how they are related to political partisanship. In order to address this gap, we focus on parliamentary discourse around low-carbon energy futures in Germany over the past three decades and analyze the relative importance of, and partisanship around, energy policy goals. We find that the political discourse revolves around four, rather than three, goals as conventionally assumed; improving the competitiveness of the national energy technology industry is not only an additional energy policy goal, it is also highly important in the political discourse. In general, the relative importance of these goals is rather stable over time and partisanship around them is limited. Yet, a sub-analysis of the discourse on renewable energy technologies reveals a high level of partisanship, albeit decreasing over time. Particularly, the energy industry goal's importance increases while its partisanship vanishes. We discuss how these findings can inform future energy policy research and provide a potential inroad for more ambitious national energy policies.

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Section: Limit Cost Of Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy goals, partisanship and paradigmatic change in energy policy – analyzing parliamentary discourse in Germany over 30 years

Schmidt¹,

Schmid²,

Sewerin³

2019

Climate Policy

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“…The inclusion of the anti-abortion area also provides a conservative policy to analyze. Even though RPS began as a libertarian concept (Wiser et al 2007), and conservative states like North Dakota and Utah have adopted RPS policy regimes, and research demonstrates that conservatives are amenable to RPS (Hughes and Lipscy 2013;Brown and Hess 2016;, RPS generally lies within the realm of liberal policy-making (Neumayer 2004;Gromet et al 2013). Anti-abortion policy, which seeks to restrict the availability of abortion, is decidedly conservative in ideological orientation (Kreitzer 2015), and studying it not only allows us to see how some of the explanations outlined in this chapter with respect to RPS function in a conservative direction but also helps lay ground for future investigation into state policy experimentation across more areas.…”

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Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone?

Parinandi¹

2023

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)-a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries-and the generous support of the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org The University of Michigan Press's open access publishing program is made possible thanks to additional funding from the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the generous support of contributing libraries. Cover: Zauberlehrling, by the German Art Collective Inges Idee. Photograph by Tuxyso / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0

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“…This act was first adopted in the 2012 Annual meeting and approved by the ALEC Board of State Legislators in the same year (ALEC, n.d.‐c). Conservative legislators have used the model bill to support negative experimentations with RPS or Energy Efficiency policies (Brown & Hess, 2016). Even if the member legislators do not directly use it for their state bills, the act itself and discussion around the act would ignite conversations over RPS termination.…”

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Organized elite power and clean energy: A study of negative policy experimentations with renewable portfolio standards

Jang

2021

Review of Policy Research

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Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) is one of the most widely adopted clean energy policies in the U.S. However, organized elite power groups, backed by ample political and economic resources, have been known to lead RPS termination efforts. In the context of state renewable energy politics, organized elite power includes legislators affiliated with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and anti‐renewable energy business groups. Focusing on the roles of organized elite power, this study investigates the drivers of the formulation of RPS rollback (goal freeze) and termination bills, which we refer to collectively as negative policy experimentations. We find that RPS termination attempts are explained by the presence of ALEC legislators and anti‐renewable energy business groups, whereas RPS goal freeze bills are better explained by conditions of policy operations. This study contributes to the policy process theory by providing critical insights into the post adoption decisions, including policy termination and rollback legislations, with a focus on the role of organized elite power.

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Pathways to policy: Partisanship and bipartisanship in renewable energy legislation

Cited by 24 publications

References 33 publications

Policy goals, partisanship and paradigmatic change in energy policy – analyzing parliamentary discourse in Germany over 30 years

Policy goals, partisanship and paradigmatic change in energy policy – analyzing parliamentary discourse in Germany over 30 years

Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone?

Organized elite power and clean energy: A study of negative policy experimentations with renewable portfolio standards

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