Debates about export pipelines from the post-Soviet region: Opinion leaders and advocacy coalitions

Heinrich, Andreas; Pleines, Heiko

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2021.100994

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“…Thereby, selected sectoral identities (see H3)—especially those that constitute the core of the Russian economy, such as oil and gas (Rutland 2015 )—as well as specific local identities—presumably the oligarchs in Moscow and St. Petersburg—should be characteristics of central actors in the policy process. The involvement of sectoral actors in decision-making processes is thereby strongly oriented toward expertise (Heinrich and Pleines 2021 ), which is in line with the assumption that the executive bases its legitimacy on the expertise of individual actors in the state apparatus, alongside the collective identity (Huskey 2012 ).…”

Section: Public Policy Research In Russiamentioning

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Social Identities in the Policy Process of Authoritarian Systems

Hornung

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Bandelow

2022

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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The integration of the social–psychological social identity approach to policy process research has recently generated new insights on policy-making. Empirical applications for established democracies and multilevel settings such as the European Union have identified five general types of social identities that are relevant for the preferences and behavior of policy actors and their stability and change over time. Social identities are based on joint memberships in social groups, such as organizations, demographic/biographical identities, sectors, locations, and informal opportunities for exchange (which may result in programmatic groups and identities). Some of these social groups, above all pluralistic interest associations and political parties, are directly related to the settings of embedded democracies. This article sheds light on the traveling capacity of the Social Identities in the Policy Process (SIPP) perspective by applying it to the Russian political system. An analysis of policy actors’ social identities in two federal ministries shows that in autocracies, interest intermediation, legitimacy, and influence on policy processes run through professional and informal groups when competing organizations and democratic institutions are absent. The results indicate that the SIPP perspective is adaptable to policy processes in different contexts but that the importance of identity types varies.

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Section: Public Policy Research In Russiamentioning

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Social Identities in the Policy Process of Authoritarian Systems

Hornung

Schröder

Bandelow

2022

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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“…An extensive search of the peer‐reviewed literature finds that while numerous scholars have been analyzing energy from a regional perspective, they have not explicitly identified their work as energy regionalism (Hancock et al, 2021). For example, many scholars have analyzed “pipeline politics” in which Russia uses oil and gas pipelines that link it to transit and importing states—notably, Germany, Belarus, and Ukraine—for political power, but none identify their work as energy regionalism (Cole, 2008; Heinrich, 2014; Kandiyoti, 2008; Stulberg, 2007, 2012). Nevertheless, a growing community is publishing on energy regionalism, even if they do not call it that.…”

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Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools

Hancock

2023

Review of Policy Research

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Low access, unreliable supply, and high‐cost electricity have hampered many African states' ability to grow their economies. Even high‐income states, like South Africa, are increasingly challenged to provide reliable electricity. To help address this shortfall, African states belong to five regional power pools: organizations that link together electricity grids of member states and create markets to buy and sell electricity across borders. Scholar have given scant attention to these power pools, and none have explored the politics behind their creation and maintenance. The path dependence framework reveals that the configuration of the power pools is directly related to the end of colonialism and the subsequent creation of regional organizations formed in the 1960's. Applying the comparative regionalism framework, I find the principal drivers for adding electricity to pre‐existing organizations fall into three categories: development interests (donor states and development banks), mining companies, and some African states, especially South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Using organizations designed for other means might be hampering the region's ability to improve energy security, standards of living, and climate change goals. Donors and power pool members should consider investing more heavily in bilateral rather than regional organizations and in decentralized or distributed electricity systems.

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Energy Security of Central and Eastern European Countries

Rosicki

2023

Contributions to Political Science

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Debates about export pipelines from the post-Soviet region: Opinion leaders and advocacy coalitions

Cited by 4 publications

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Social Identities in the Policy Process of Authoritarian Systems

Social Identities in the Policy Process of Authoritarian Systems

Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools

Energy Security of Central and Eastern European Countries

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