Institutional Learning and Technological Knowledge in Renewable Energy Policy

可再生能源政策中的制度学习和技术知识

• 批准号: 9810408
• 负责人: Frank Laird
• 金额: $ 9.81万
• 依托单位: University of Denver
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-01 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Institutional; Learning; Technological; Knowledge; Renewable

This project will develop an analysis of renewable energy technology policy focusing on the-role of ideas and institutional learning as the analytical framework for understanding policy changes.-As scholars have given ideas increasing analytical priority in understanding public policy, they have not-excluded the more traditional explanations for policy such as interests and institutions. Instead,-they have looked at the interaction of ideas, interests, and institutions. In earlier work, the PI has-analyzed the ways in which ideas become institutionalized over time and how policy advocates-compete to institutionalize their ideas. If ideas are important, the ways in which institutions change their ideas must-also be important. The analytical lens of institutional learning is one means for examining those changes.- This study will use institutional learning to link the ideas and technological knowledge debated within the-policy community to the changes in policies and the explanations that senior officials give for those-changes. To analyze the extent of institutional learning and its possible sources, the study will utilize two-important theoretical strategies. First, it will examine the ways that institutions can manifest learning-beyond individual learning by key officials; for example, changes in rules, procedures, or-institutional structures can constitute institutional learning. Second, the study will incorporate insights from-the social studies of technology by using a complex notion of technological knowledge, seeing it not only-as an instrumentality but as a complex mixture of empirical and normative claims.- A longitudinal case study of renewable energy policy is apt for theoretical and pragmatic-reasons. Changes in energy policy are themselves important and will become more so in the coming-years. In addition, renewable energy policy is part of a class of technology policies that are concerned with encouraging the creation of future technological systems. These policies are of theoretical importance because of the profound uncertainties that such efforts entail. The more pervasive the-uncertainty, the stronger the role for ideas, especially normative ones, in influencing policy actors and-outcomes. Pragmatically, these future-oriented policies are important because, through them,-governments try to achieve broad social goals and influence the direction of industry.- This study will examine renewable energy policy from 1977 to the present through an analysis of-government documents and archives, as well as the relevant policy literature. The analysis will proceed by-extracting the ideas that have guided policy by looking at the narratives, symbols, metaphors, and other-ways in which officials have explained their policies and framed the policy issues. The analysis will also-link these ideas up with those that are found in the professional literature of the time and examine the-linkages between external policy analysts and policy makers.- The results of this work will be three-fold. It will develop a better understanding of-renewable energy policy and recommendations for where that policy should go in the future, and a framework that will facilitate the analysis of the broad class of future oriented technology-policies. Third, it will enable scholars and policy makers to understand better the barriers to institutional-learning in technological areas and, therefore, to develop more effective policies.

该项目将对可再生能源技术政策进行分析，重点关注思想和制度学习的作用，作为理解政策变化的分析框架。随着学者们在理解公共政策方面给予思想越来越多的分析优先权，他们并没有排除对政策的更传统的解释，例如利益和制度。 相反，他们着眼于思想、利益和制度之间的相互作用。 在早期的工作中，PI 分析了思想随着时间的推移变得制度化的方式，以及政策倡导者如何竞争将他们的思想制度化。 如果想法很重要，那么机构改变想法的方式也一定很重要。 制度学习的分析视角是检验这些变化的一种手段。这项研究将利用制度学习将政策界内争论的想法和技术知识与政策的变化以及高级官员对这些变化的解释联系起来。 为了分析制度学习的程度及其可能的来源，本研究将利用两个重要的理论策略。 首先，它将研究机构体现学习的方式——超越主要官员的个人学习；例如，规则、程序或制度结构的变化可以构成制度学习。 其次，该研究将通过使用技术知识的复杂概念来纳入技术社会研究的见解，不仅将其视为一种工具，而且将其视为经验和规范主张的复杂混合体。可再生能源政策的纵向案例研究适合于理论和务实的原因。能源政策的变化本身就很重要，并且在未来几年将变得更加重要。此外，可再生能源政策是鼓励创建未来技术系统的一类技术政策的一部分。 这些政策具有理论上的重要性，因为这些努力带来了深刻的不确定性。 不确定性越普遍，观念（尤其是规范性观念）在影响政策行为者和结果方面的作用就越强。 实际上，这些面向未来的政策很重要，因为政府试图通过它们实现广泛的社会目标并影响产业方向。本研究将通过分析政府文件和档案以及相关政策文献来审视 1977 年至今的可再生能源政策。分析将通过观察官员解释其政策和界定政策问题的叙述、符号、隐喻和其他方式来提取指导政策的思想。分析还将这些想法与当时专业文献中的想法联系起来，并研究外部政策分析师和政策制定者之间的联系。 这项工作的结果将有三重。 它将更好地理解可再生能源政策，并就该政策未来的走向提出建议，并建立一个有助于分析广泛的面向未来的技术政策的框架。 第三，它将使学者和政策制定者能够更好地了解技术领域机构学习的障碍，从而制定更有效的政策。