Measuring and explaining policy paradigm change

The case of UK energy policy

Bibliographic Data

ID7350262
AuthorsFriederike Kern (0000-0002-3968-330X, University of Sussex), Florian Kern (0000-0002-0368-8408, University of Sussex), Caroline Kuzemko (0000-0001-6356-4573, University of Exeter), Catherine Mitchell (0000-0001-9932-3050, University of Exeter)
Year2013
Volume42
Issue4
Pages513-530
Publication date2013-08-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557312x655765
OpenAlexW2026279712
LanguageEN
Citations received71

This paper contributes to the literature on institutional change by creating a framework that both measures and explains policy change. The framework is then applied to UK energy policy from 2000 to 2011 and finds that a policy paradigm change has occurred. Contrary to expectations in the literature, however, the process of change has been informed by multiple narratives and the new governance system is complex and incoherent. The analysis also finds that there has been relatively little shift in how energy systems operate, suggesting shortcomings in a conceptual focus on institutional change over outcomes

Corporate governance · Economics · Energy (signal processing · Energy policy · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Institutional change · Management · Narrative · Paradigm shift · Political science · Positive economics · Process (computing · Public economics · Theory of change · Computer Science · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

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