Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda
Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda
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历史制度主义和可持续能源转型的政治：研究议程
DOI：
10.1177/0263774x16660561
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发表时间：
2017
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
R. Hoggett
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作者：
M. Lockwood;C. Kuzemko;C. Mitchell;R. Hoggett
提高对可持续能源转型的政治理解已成为研究的主要焦点。本文以最近对制度主义方法的兴趣为基础，从历史制度主义的角度来深入考虑这种转变所产生的议程。有人认为，历史制度主义是对社会技术系统方法的有价值的补充，为明确分析存在但隐含在后一个框架中的制度动态提供了工具，开辟了新的问题，并为研究正在出现转型的更广泛的政治背景提供了有用的经验材料。本文运用了一些核心概念，包括否决权参与者、权力、意外后果以及各种方式的积极和消极反馈，探讨了两大领域的研究议程：从不同制度安排的影响角度理解转型结果的多样性，从制度发展和变革的角度理解转型。探讨了一系列问题，包括：选举和政治机构的作用，监管机构，对过渡政策的政治可信承诺的创造，权力和在职，制度体系和资本主义的品种，政权稳定和不稳定的来源，政策反馈效应，以及渐进制度变革的类型。本文最后对历史制度主义的潜力和局限性进行了一些观察，并简要地考虑了是否可能存在促进更快速可持续能源转型的特定制度配置的问题。
Improving the understanding of the politics of sustainable energy transitions has become a major focus for research. This paper builds on recent interest in institutionalist approaches to consider in some depth the agenda arising from a historical institutionalist perspective on such transitions. It is argued that historical institutionalism is a valuable complement to socio-technical systems approaches, offering tools for the explicit analysis of institutional dynamics that are present but implicit in the latter framework, opening up new questions and providing useful empirical material relevant for the study of the wider political contexts within which transitions are emerging. Deploying a number of core concepts including veto players, power, unintended consequences, and positive and negative feedback in a variety of ways, the paper explores research agendas in two broad areas: understanding diversity in transition outcomes in terms of the effects of different institutional arrangements, and the understanding of transitions in terms of institutional development and change. A range of issues are explored, including: the roles of electoral and political institutions, regulatory agencies, the creation of politically credible commitment to transition policies, power and incumbency, institutional systems and varieties of capitalism, sources of regime stability and instability, policy feedback effects, and types of gradual institutional change. The paper concludes with some observations on the potential and limitations of historical institutionalism, and briefly considers the question of whether there may be specific institutional configurations that would facilitate more rapid sustainable energy transitions.
影响因子：
4.7
作者：
F. Kern;C. Kuzemko;C. Mitchell
通讯作者：
F. Kern;C. Kuzemko;C. Mitchell