Drivers of Energy Transition
Author | : Wolfgang Gründinger |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783658176914 |
ISBN-13 | : 3658176911 |
Rating | : 4/5 (911 Downloads) |
Download or read book Drivers of Energy Transition written by Wolfgang Gründinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Gründinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, renewables, coal (CCS), and emissions trading. His findings provide evidence that logics of political competition in new German politics have fundamentally changed over the last two decades with respect to five distinct mechanisms: the end of ’fossil-nuclear’ corporatism, the new importance of trust in lobbying, ’green ’ path dependence, the emergence of a ’Green Grand Coalition’, and intra-party fights over energy politics.