Competing coalitions: The politics of renewable energy and fossil fuels in Mexico, South Africa and Thailand

Rennkamp, Britta; Haunss, Sebastian; Wongsa, Kridtiyaporn; Ortega, Araceli; Casamadrid, Erika

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.07.012

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“…A growing number of studies argues that discourse coalitions in the public sphere have a crucial impact on policy processes (e.g. Bulkeley, 2000;Leifeld & Haunss, 2012;Rennkamp et al, 2017). As the media is a significant arena for the politics and framing of climate change (Boykoff, 2011), ACF scholars have increasingly used media material to trace policy advocacy coalitions (e.g.…”

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International organizations, advocacy coalitions, and domestication of global norms: Debates on climate change in Canada, the US, Brazil, and India

Kukkonen

Ylä‐Anttila

Swarnakar

et al. 2018

Environmental Science & Policy

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National climate policies are shaped by international organizations (IOs) and global norms. Drawing from World Society Theory and the Advocacy Coalition Framework, we develop two related arguments: (1) one way in which IOs can influence national climate policy is through their engagement in mass-mediated national policy debates and (2) national organizations involved in the policy process may form advocacy coalitions to support or oppose the norms promoted by IOs. To examine the role of IOs in national policy debates and the coalitions that support and oppose them, we use discourse network analysis on over 3500 statements in eleven newspapers in Canada, United States, Brazil and India. We find that in the high-income countries where greenhouse gas emissions are high (Canada and the US), IOs are less central in the policy debates and the discourse network is strongly clustered into competing advocacy coalitions. In the low emitting countries (Brazil and India) IOs are more central and the discourse network is less clustered. Relating these findings to earlier research leads us to suggest that the differences we find between high and low emitting countries may be to some extent generalizable to these country groups beyond our four cases.

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International organizations, advocacy coalitions, and domestication of global norms: Debates on climate change in Canada, the US, Brazil, and India

Kukkonen

Ylä‐Anttila

Swarnakar

et al. 2018

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…The results of causality tests also indicate that public and government actors positively interact with market actors, by showing convincing evidence of bidirectional positive interaction between GDPPC and EPS or GHG. It suggests that although the market itself may have a positive impact on the transition to a renewable-energy economy, policy-makers should bear in mind that creating interaction between the government and the market [100] and the public discourse network that stimulates the market actors [101] are very crucial to promote the transition to a renewable-energy society. Based on such interactions, policy-makers should make significant effort to enhance their potential synergy effects in developing and implementing a variety of policy instruments for promoting the transition.…”

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Who Drives the Transition to a Renewable-Energy Economy? Multi-Actor Perspective on Social Innovation

Sung

Park

2018

Sustainability

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This study examines how various actors influence the transition to a renewable-energy economy. We employ a conceptual framework derived from a literature review and text-mining analysis and establish a panel data model for an empirical test using unbalanced panel data from 25 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for the period from 1990 to 2014. We establish a panel vector autoregressive (VAR) model in the first differences and use a bias-corrected least squares dummy variable (LSDVC) estimator to test complex dynamic relationships between government, the public, markets, the traditional energy sector (i.e., the sector that uses nuclear power, oil, coal and natural gas as sources for electricity) and the contribution of renewables to the total energy supply. We also perform Wald tests on the coefficients of variables estimated by LSDVC estimator to determine causal relationships between the variables. The results of this study reveal that government and markets directly promote the transition to renewable energy, whereas the traditional energy sector negatively and directly affects the transition. By contrast, the public does not directly influence the transition to a renewable-energy economy. This study also shows that the government and public have positive indirect effects on the transition, by interacting with the market. We also find convincing evidence of significant dynamic-path dependence in all estimations. Finally, we discuss some implications based on the findings of this study.

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“…In order to support renewable energy, many countries are pursuing policies which played a critical role in encouraging investment in renewable energy (Rennkamp, Haunss, Wongsa, Ortega, & Casamadrid, 2017). Rennkamp et al (2017) Pointed out that China's renewables growth is due to implementing a number of government policies. According to Donastorg, Renukappa, & Suresh, (2017), at least164 countries have renewable energy policy targets, and to achieve these targets it must depend on dedicated policies.…”

Section: Renewable Energy Policiesmentioning

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Literature Review of Renewable Energy Policies and Impacts

Kabel

Bassim²

2019

European Journal of Marketing and Economics

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By 2017, 128 countries have adopted renewable energy support policies, compared to just 48 countries in 2005. These policies played a crucial role in helping countries to shift from conventional energy to renewable energy by overcoming the barriers facing the development of renewable energy. This paper reviews the studies, which outlined the policies used by different governments to support the development of renewable energy, which includes: Tax incentives, Loans, Feed-in tariff, and Renewable portfolio standard. The literature review covers different studies that examined the impacts of renewable energy on economic growth, job creation, welfare, CO2 emissions, electricity prices, and fuel imports. Researches have used different methodological approaches, different periods, and different countries to examine the impacts of renewable energy. The studies found that the policies used were essential to shift to renewable energy substantially reduced carbon emission, and the majority concluded that renewable energy has a positive correlation with economic growth, job creation and welfare

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Competing coalitions: The politics of renewable energy and fossil fuels in Mexico, South Africa and Thailand

Cited by 83 publications

References 18 publications

International organizations, advocacy coalitions, and domestication of global norms: Debates on climate change in Canada, the US, Brazil, and India

International organizations, advocacy coalitions, and domestication of global norms: Debates on climate change in Canada, the US, Brazil, and India

Who Drives the Transition to a Renewable-Energy Economy? Multi-Actor Perspective on Social Innovation

Literature Review of Renewable Energy Policies and Impacts

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