Energy Policy Making in the EU: Building the Agenda

262 Pages·2015·4.27 MB·English

by  Jale Tosun

Lecture Notes in Energy 28
Jale Tosun
Sophie Biesenbender
Kai Schulze Editors
Energy Policy
Making in
the EU
Building the Agenda
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Editors
Jale Tosun Kai Schulze
Instituteof Political Science Faculty ofEconomics and SocialSciences
Heidelberg University Universityof Potsdam
Heidelberg Potsdam
Germany Germany
Sophie Biesenbender
InstituteforResearch Information
andQuality Assurance(iFQ)
Berlin
Germany
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Acknowledgments
ThiseditedvolumeoriginatesfromaworkshopheldattheUniversityofMannheim’s
CenterforEuropeanSocialResearch(MZES)inGermany,during30–31May2013.
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the
organisation of the workshop as well as the research project Agenda Definition in
European Energy Policy: Actors, Preferences and Strategies. We thank Cornelius
Eich,FredericNeuendorf,ChristineStegmannandtheMZESfortheirsupportinthe
organisationoftheworkshop.MarcDebus,JohannKöppelandShaunBevandida
terrific job in commenting on the draft versions of the chapters. This project was
inspiredbytheworkshop“Intra-institutionalPoliticsofEUEnergyPolicy-Making:
Landscape-Level Shifts, Discourses and Organizational Cultures” organised by
Luigi Carafa and held at Robinson College, Cambridge University, 27–28 April
2012.Thevolumeasawholeadditionallybenefittedfromtheseminaldiscussionat
theWorkshop“EnergyPolicyinEurope:UnderstandingAgenda-SettingDynamics”
heldattheInternationalConferenceonPublicPolicy,26–28June2013,Instituteof
PoliticalStudies,Grenoble.WethankNazmiyeBalta-Ozkan,AndreiBelyiandTina
Hunterforparticipatingintheworkshopandprovidinguswithvaluablesuggestions
for further improving this project. Finally, we want to express our gratitude to
AndreasFleigforafinalsetofcomments,SophieDolinga,FredericNeuendorfand
SimonSchaubforformattingthechaptersandJamesFerrellforlanguage-editing.
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Berlin Sophie Biesenbender
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Contents
Building the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . 1
Jale Tosun, Sophie Biesenbender and Kai Schulze
Part I Patterns of Agenda Building and Legislative Activities
The EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: Directions and Developments. . . . . . 21
Sophie Biesenbender
Agenda Dynamics on Energy Policy in the European Council . . . . . . . 41
Petya Alexandrova and Arco Timmermans
Exporting the Energy Acquis: The External Agenda Shaping
Power of the EU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Kai Schulze
Part II The Commission as Policy Entrepreneur
Against All Odds: The Liberalisation of the European Natural
Gas Market—A Multiple Streams Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Nicole Herweg
Designing Financing Mechanisms for Electricity from Renewable
Energy Sources: The Role of the European Commission
as an Agenda Shaper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
David Jacobs
The EU Energy Poverty and Vulnerability Agenda:
An Emergent Domain of Transnational Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Stefan Bouzarovski and S. Petrova
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Part III Influential Member States
The Liberalisation of the Internal Energy Market:
Is the EU Dancing at a British Tempo? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Andrea Ciambra and Israel Solorio
German Efforts to Shape European Renewable Energy Policy. . . . . . . 167
Robert Henry Cox and Mariam Dekanozishvili
Part IV Framing and Reframing
Shaping the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: The Role of Eastern
European Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Elina Brutschin
Building the Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage:
Limits of EU-Activism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Gerhard Fuchs
Regulating Hydraulic Fracturing: The Effects
of Issue Redefinition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
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Part V Conclusion
Building the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: Insights Gained . . . . . . . . . 247
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Contributors
Petya Alexandrova Institute of Political Sciences, Leibniz University of
Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Sophie Biesenbender Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance,
Berlin, Germany
Stefan Bouzarovski SEED, University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Building,
Manchester, UK; Department of Economic Geography, University of Gdańsk,
Gdańsk, Poland
Elina Brutschin International Relations Department, Webster University Vienna,
Vienna, Austria
Andrea Ciambra Institut de Dret I Tecnologia, Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona Campus UAB–Edifici B, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
RobertHenryCox WalkerInstituteforInternationalandAreaStudies,University
of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
MariamDekanozishvili DepartmentofPoliticsandGeography,CoastalCarolina
University, Conway, SC, USA
Gerhard Fuchs Institute for Social Sciences, Sowi VI, University of Stuttgart,
Stuttgart, Germany
Nicole Herweg Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg,
Heidelberg, Germany
David Jacobs Department of Political and Social Sciences, EnvironmentalPolicy
Research Centre (FFU), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
S.Petrova SEED,UniversityofManchester,ArthurLewisBuilding,Manchester,
UK
Kai Schulze Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam,
Potsdam, Germany
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Israel Solorio Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany
ArcoTimmermans InstituteofPublicAdministration,CampustheHague,Leiden
University, The Hague, The Netherlands
Jale Tosun Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg,
Germany