“…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.…”