Look to S weden
The Making of a New Renewable Energy Support Scheme in N orway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7374847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Therese Gullberg (CICERO Pb 1129, Blindern N‐0318 Oslo Norway), Guri Bang (0000-0002-9975-7497, CICERO Center for International Climate Research) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-114 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scandinavian Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-6757 • E-ISSN: 1467-9477 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9477.12030 |
| OpenAlex | W1967710221 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
Two renewable energy support schemes have spread across Europe: green certificate schemes ( GCSs ) and feed‐in tariffs ( FITs ). After a decade‐long policy‐making process, N orwegian decision makers decided in 2011 to adopt a GCS compatible with the already existing one in S weden and thereby establish a joint N orwegian‐Swedish GCS . The article explores this process of policy transfer, and asks to what extent competition and policy learning contributed to N orway's choice of a GCS . It finds that competition was a barrier to a joint N orwegian‐Swedish GCS rather than (as predicted by some scholars) a driver of policy transfer. In terms of policy learning, it finds that N orwegian bureaucrats systematically were searching for information about renewable energy policy instruments in a process characterised by rational learning. However, this information was not taken into account by elected policy makers, whose learning was unsystematic and almost exclusively influenced by S weden – making it a process of bounded learning. Finally, domestic factors that facilitated and constrained the policy transfer process are identified in the article. A reluctant bureaucracy defending the status quo policies constrained the policy transfer process. GCS as a market‐based instrument independent of yearly allocations over the annual national budgets facilitated the process by securing strong support in a broad coalition of stakeholder groups and thereby cross‐partisan support. The latter finding may contribute to the literature by underscoring the importance of domestic political factors
Bureaucracy · Business · Competition (biology · Economics · Energy policy · Industrial organization · Market economy · Policy learning · Policy transfer · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public economics · Public relations · Renewable energy · Stakeholder · Status quo · Computer Science · Engineering · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |