Studying Incremental Institutional Change: A Systematic and Critical Metaanalysis of the Literature from 2005 to 2015

Heijden, Jeroen van der; Kuhlmann, Johanna

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“…This sequential emergence of policy mixes affects the extent to which policymakers can design or anticipate interactions and complementarities between the various pieces of the mix (Mahoney and Thelen 2010, Van der Heijden and Kuhlmann 2017, Baumgartner and Jones 2009. The existence of older and established instruments in the policy mix may also render it difficult for policymakers to create new combinations of instruments from scratch (Peters, Pierre, andKing 2005, Schmidt andSewerin 2018) that might otherwise be designed to achieve optimal levels of complementarities.…”

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Instrument Interactions and Relationships in Policy Mixes: Achieving Complementarity in Building Energy Efficiency Policies in New York, Sydney and Tokyo

Trencher

Heijden

2019

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Cities are crucial sites for achieving socio-technical transitions in technology and infrastructure systems. Raising building energy efficiency (BEE) through new construction or retrofitting holds particular relevance to sustainability transitions since this requires diffusion of new technologies and energy management practices. In pursuit of this, city policymakers around the world are increasingly utilising mixes of multiple policy instruments. While achieving desirable interactions across instruments is a critical determinant of the potential success of policy mixes, so is the ability to design beneficial relationships across individual instruments to complement the overall functioning or outcomes of the entire mix. These dual aspects of instrument interaction and complementary relationships can be conceived as 'complementarities'. Empirical knowledge, however, on particular strategies that policymakers may employ to achieve complementarities in mixes is limited. Addressing this gap, we use an adaptive theory approach to identify strategies for achieving complementarities in policy mixes from literature and then examine how these are exploited in real-world policy mixes designed to promoted BEE and retrofitting in New York, Sydney and Tokyo. We anticipate that our suite of complementarity advancing measures might serve as a toolkit for policymakers seeking to drive socio-technical transitions in other areas beyond energy efficiency challenges in buildings.

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