The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions
Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6057720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Bailey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Pages | 100853 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2210-4224 • E-ISSN: 2210-4232 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100853 |
| OpenAlex | W4396692788 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 69 |
Sustainability Transition Research (STR) has increasingly recognised the importance of capitalism and the capitalist state in constraining and accelerating the adoption of low-carbon innovations, but has engaged far less with the distinctive forms of national capitalisms. This article highlights the relevant insights of comparative political economy (CPE) that provide a fuller comprehension of the capitalist diversity shaping contemporary sustainability transitions. Specifically, it calls for greater attention to be awarded to the idiosyncratic supply and demand dynamics relating to national growth models, interest coalitions and institutional coordination, and historically-constituted political tendencies of governance. Through these insights, it is argued, the complexities of instigating industrial decarbonisation though the effective application of low-carbon technologies and the geographic asymmetries of transition can be better understood. The importance of these insights is outlined theoretically and demonstrated empirically through an examination of the varying strategic and institutional dynamics characterising sustainability transitions in the contemporary global economy
Biology · Economic system · Economics · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sustainability · Thermodynamics · Asian Industrial and Economic Development
Power in sustainability transitions research
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Orchestrating place-based micro-missions
Institutional activism within the local state
Between stringency and slack
Governance, Innovation, and Complexity
The archetype of a ‘big green state’? What China tells us about green macrofinancial regimes
European capitalisms in sustainability transition
Power Shift
Varieties of capitalism and clean energy transitions in the European Union
Conditions for politically accelerated transitions
Sustainability transitions
Sustainability Transitions Research
The next phase of the energy transition and its implications for research and policy
Drivers of national climate policy
Growth models and social blocs
Industrial policy and comparative political economy
The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions
Limits of the corporate-led market approach to off-grid energy access
Socio-technical transitions to sustainability
Elite power in low-carbon transitions
The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa
The political economy of socio-technical transitions
An actionable understanding of societal transitions
Building back before
Backlash to Climate Policy
Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics
Comparative Capitalism, Growth Models and Emerging Markets
From Green Energy to the Green Car State? The Political Economy of Ecological Modernisation in Germany
Intro
Balancing the scales
Zero carbon as economic restructuring
How Did We Do That? Histories and Political Economies of Rapid and Just Transitions
The political economy of decarbonisation
Capitalist Convergence? European (dis?)Integration and the Post-crash Restructuring of French and European Capitalisms
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Varieties of Capitalism and Technological Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation
Brexit and the Politics of UK Growth Models
Comparative capitalisms in the Anthropocene
Trasformismo or transformation? The global political economy of energy transitions
Growing differently? Financial cycles, austerity, and competitiveness in growth models since the Global Financial Crisis
A climate for business
Does capitalism (still) come in varieties
Sustainability transitions and policy dismantling
Neoliberal energy transitions in the South
Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism
As I Drifted on a River I Could Not Control
The Political Economy of Energy Transitions
The Electoral Politics of Growth Regimes
Contemporary financial capitalism and sustainability transitions in urban built environments
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability
Sustainability transitions and the state
Forever stuck in old ways? Pluralising incumbencies in sustainability transitions
Incumbent resistance and the solar transition
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions
Relating financial systems to sustainability transitions
Strengthen finance in sustainability transitions research
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus
Exploring the governance and politics of transformations towards sustainability
An agenda for sustainability transitions research
Scaling just transitions
Right-wing populism and the climate change agenda
The Green State
Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions
The Comparative Political Economy of Growth Models
Rethinking Comparative Political Economy
Inequality in developed countries and Latin America
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2027 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |