Carol Hager
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Hager |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Hager |
| SIGNATURE | HAGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Restoring the People-Powered Energiewende
Germany was an early leader in the energy transition. In contrast to the country's general top-down policymaking style, the Energiewende proceeded from the bottom up, through the activism of small innovators and local communities. The 2000 Renewable Energy Sources Act supported the local transition primarily through feed-in tariffs. The locally based Energiewende yielded diverse benefits, including climate resilience, economic vitality, and commu…
Urban Environments: Science, Governance, and Social Change at the City/Nature Interface
The Shifting Role of Climate Change in the 2021 Bundestag Election
The climate crisis unfolded in real time during the 2021 Bundestag campaign, as western Germany experienced sudden, catastrophic flooding. The climate issue presented a varying and at times unexpected array of challenges and opportunities to the German political parties. In this article I will analyze the shifting role of climate change as it played out during the campaign, in the coalition discussions that followed, and in the first nine months …
Resistance to Energy Transitions
While the global effects of climate change are accelerating at an alarming rate, climate policy is not keeping pace. This special issue addresses domestic constraints on climate action around the world. Specifically, our authors analyze the multifaceted resistance to energy transitions arising in a variety of industrialized democracies, including the USA, Germany, Japan, the UK, and Switzerland. We develop politics-oriented explanations within an…
Local Renewable Energy Initiatives in Germany and Japan in a Changing National Policy Environment
Our article explores the contribution of local initiatives to the creation of path dependencies for energy transition in Germany and Japan in the face of resistance from entrenched incumbents at the national level. We use a process‐tracing methodology based partly on interviews with local participants. In particular, we explore the role of local initiatives in securing “socio‐political space” for the expansion of renewable energy (RE) and in embe…
Green Politics, Expertise, and Democratic Discourse in the Two Germanies, 1989-2019
Environmental movements became a major vehicle for promoting citizen participation in both East and West Germany during the 1980s. Their critiques of industrial society, however, reflected the different constellations of power in their respective countries. Movements in both East and West formed green parties, but their disparate understandings of power, expertise, and democracy complicated the parties' efforts to coalesce during the unification …
Germany's Green Energy Revolution: Challenging the Theory and Practice of Institutional Change
The energy revolution poses a fundamental challenge to the German corporatist institutional model. The push for renewables in Germany arose almost entirely outside the prevailing channels of institutional power. Eventually, federal legislation helped support the boom in local energy production that was already underway, and it encouraged the further development of new forms of community investment and citizen participation in energy supply. Recen…
Revisiting the Ungovernability Debate: Regional Governance and Sprawl in the USA and UK
This article links contemporary critiques of regional governance to the 'crisis of the state' in the 1970s and 1980s. Using the example of the politics of sprawl, I explain why collaborative regional planning institutions in New Jersey and the East of England have received such low marks from government participants and local populations, despite their success in completing land-use plans. I argue that these new governance institutions inadverten…
Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate
An examination of the role of the citizen in a society in which specialized knowledge confers power
Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate
Taking as its reference point the development of citizens' participation in energy politics in West Berlin from 1970 to the present, Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate examines the connection between environmental and democratizing concerns in Germany. Carol Hager illuminates what tentative answers environmental groups provide to the question of the citizen's role in technological society. The book expl…
Citizen Movements and Technological Policymaking in Germany
In Germany, the mobilization of grass-roots citizen groups in the past two decades has posed a fundamental challenge to institutional politics. One important aspect of this challenge, which is often overlooked, is the relationship of democratizing movements to technology. Grass-roots protest arose mainly in reaction to large, state-sponsored technological projects. Citizen movements reopened the question of the citizen's proper role in technologi…
Democratizing Technology: Citizen & State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990
In West Germany, mass energy protests of the past two decades reopened the question of the citizen's proper role in technological decision making. This case study analyzes the politics of energy policy, where grassroots activists challenged not only policy decisions themselves but also the legitimacy of the bureaucratic institutions that produced them. The author finds that citizen activism raised the technical competence of the bureaucracy in th…
Environmentalism and democracy in the two Germanies
This article compares the impact of environmentalism on democratisation in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic and analyses the role of environmental groups in the unification process. In both countries, environmentalists contributed to democratisation by challenging the established state‐society relationship. However, despite common themes, the movements in east and west did not communicate well with each other, no…
Local Renewable Energy Initiatives in Germany and Japan in a Changing National Policy Environment
Our article explores the contribution of local initiatives to the creation of path dependencies for energy transition in Germany and Japan in the face of resistance from entrenched incumbents at the national level. We use a process‐tracing methodology based partly on interviews with local participants. In particular, we explore the role of local initiatives in securing “socio‐political space” for the expansion of renewable energy (RE) and in embe…
Germany's Green Energy Revolution: Challenging the Theory and Practice of Institutional Change
The energy revolution poses a fundamental challenge to the German corporatist institutional model. The push for renewables in Germany arose almost entirely outside the prevailing channels of institutional power. Eventually, federal legislation helped support the boom in local energy production that was already underway, and it encouraged the further development of new forms of community investment and citizen participation in energy supply. Recen…
Revisiting the Ungovernability Debate: Regional Governance and Sprawl in the USA and UK
This article links contemporary critiques of regional governance to the 'crisis of the state' in the 1970s and 1980s. Using the example of the politics of sprawl, I explain why collaborative regional planning institutions in New Jersey and the East of England have received such low marks from government participants and local populations, despite their success in completing land-use plans. I argue that these new governance institutions inadverten…
Democratizing Technology: Citizen & State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990
In West Germany, mass energy protests of the past two decades reopened the question of the citizen's proper role in technological decision making. This case study analyzes the politics of energy policy, where grassroots activists challenged not only policy decisions themselves but also the legitimacy of the bureaucratic institutions that produced them. The author finds that citizen activism raised the technical competence of the bureaucracy in th…
Environmentalism and democracy in the two Germanies
This article compares the impact of environmentalism on democratisation in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic and analyses the role of environmental groups in the unification process. In both countries, environmentalists contributed to democratisation by challenging the established state‐society relationship. However, despite common themes, the movements in east and west did not communicate well with each other, no…
The Shifting Role of Climate Change in the 2021 Bundestag Election
The climate crisis unfolded in real time during the 2021 Bundestag campaign, as western Germany experienced sudden, catastrophic flooding. The climate issue presented a varying and at times unexpected array of challenges and opportunities to the German political parties. In this article I will analyze the shifting role of climate change as it played out during the campaign, in the coalition discussions that followed, and in the first nine months …
Resistance to Energy Transitions
While the global effects of climate change are accelerating at an alarming rate, climate policy is not keeping pace. This special issue addresses domestic constraints on climate action around the world. Specifically, our authors analyze the multifaceted resistance to energy transitions arising in a variety of industrialized democracies, including the USA, Germany, Japan, the UK, and Switzerland. We develop politics-oriented explanations within an…
Green Politics, Expertise, and Democratic Discourse in the Two Germanies, 1989-2019
Environmental movements became a major vehicle for promoting citizen participation in both East and West Germany during the 1980s. Their critiques of industrial society, however, reflected the different constellations of power in their respective countries. Movements in both East and West formed green parties, but their disparate understandings of power, expertise, and democracy complicated the parties' efforts to coalesce during the unification …
Citizen Movements and Technological Policymaking in Germany
In Germany, the mobilization of grass-roots citizen groups in the past two decades has posed a fundamental challenge to institutional politics. One important aspect of this challenge, which is often overlooked, is the relationship of democratizing movements to technology. Grass-roots protest arose mainly in reaction to large, state-sponsored technological projects. Citizen movements reopened the question of the citizen's proper role in technologi…
Democratizing Technology: Citizen & State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990
In West Germany, mass energy protests of the past two decades reopened the question of the citizen's proper role in technological decision making. This case study analyzes the politics of energy policy, where grassroots activists challenged not only policy decisions themselves but also the legitimacy of the bureaucratic institutions that produced them. The author finds that citizen activism raised the technical competence of the bureaucracy in th…
Environmentalism and democracy in the two Germanies
This article compares the impact of environmentalism on democratisation in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic and analyses the role of environmental groups in the unification process. In both countries, environmentalists contributed to democratisation by challenging the established state‐society relationship. However, despite common themes, the movements in east and west did not communicate well with each other, no…
Citizen Movements and Technological Policymaking in Germany
In Germany, the mobilization of grass-roots citizen groups in the past two decades has posed a fundamental challenge to institutional politics. One important aspect of this challenge, which is often overlooked, is the relationship of democratizing movements to technology. Grass-roots protest arose mainly in reaction to large, state-sponsored technological projects. Citizen movements reopened the question of the citizen's proper role in technologi…
Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate
Taking as its reference point the development of citizens' participation in energy politics in West Berlin from 1970 to the present, Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate examines the connection between environmental and democratizing concerns in Germany. Carol Hager illuminates what tentative answers environmental groups provide to the question of the citizen's role in technological society. The book expl…
Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate
An examination of the role of the citizen in a society in which specialized knowledge confers power
Revisiting the Ungovernability Debate: Regional Governance and Sprawl in the USA and UK
This article links contemporary critiques of regional governance to the 'crisis of the state' in the 1970s and 1980s. Using the example of the politics of sprawl, I explain why collaborative regional planning institutions in New Jersey and the East of England have received such low marks from government participants and local populations, despite their success in completing land-use plans. I argue that these new governance institutions inadverten…
Germany's Green Energy Revolution: Challenging the Theory and Practice of Institutional Change
The energy revolution poses a fundamental challenge to the German corporatist institutional model. The push for renewables in Germany arose almost entirely outside the prevailing channels of institutional power. Eventually, federal legislation helped support the boom in local energy production that was already underway, and it encouraged the further development of new forms of community investment and citizen participation in energy supply. Recen…
Green Politics, Expertise, and Democratic Discourse in the Two Germanies, 1989-2019
Environmental movements became a major vehicle for promoting citizen participation in both East and West Germany during the 1980s. Their critiques of industrial society, however, reflected the different constellations of power in their respective countries. Movements in both East and West formed green parties, but their disparate understandings of power, expertise, and democracy complicated the parties' efforts to coalesce during the unification …
Resistance to Energy Transitions
While the global effects of climate change are accelerating at an alarming rate, climate policy is not keeping pace. This special issue addresses domestic constraints on climate action around the world. Specifically, our authors analyze the multifaceted resistance to energy transitions arising in a variety of industrialized democracies, including the USA, Germany, Japan, the UK, and Switzerland. We develop politics-oriented explanations within an…
Local Renewable Energy Initiatives in Germany and Japan in a Changing National Policy Environment
Our article explores the contribution of local initiatives to the creation of path dependencies for energy transition in Germany and Japan in the face of resistance from entrenched incumbents at the national level. We use a process‐tracing methodology based partly on interviews with local participants. In particular, we explore the role of local initiatives in securing “socio‐political space” for the expansion of renewable energy (RE) and in embe…
The Shifting Role of Climate Change in the 2021 Bundestag Election
The climate crisis unfolded in real time during the 2021 Bundestag campaign, as western Germany experienced sudden, catastrophic flooding. The climate issue presented a varying and at times unexpected array of challenges and opportunities to the German political parties. In this article I will analyze the shifting role of climate change as it played out during the campaign, in the coalition discussions that followed, and in the first nine months …
Urban Environments: Science, Governance, and Social Change at the City/Nature Interface
Restoring the People-Powered Energiewende
Germany was an early leader in the energy transition. In contrast to the country's general top-down policymaking style, the Energiewende proceeded from the bottom up, through the activism of small innovators and local communities. The 2000 Renewable Energy Sources Act supported the local transition primarily through feed-in tariffs. The locally based Energiewende yielded diverse benefits, including climate resilience, economic vitality, and commu…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · German (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works)