Is it all about collaborative governance? Alternative ways of understanding the success of energy regions

Ludger Gailing and Andreas Röhring

Utilities Policy, 2016, vol. 41, issue C, 237-245

Abstract: This paper calls into question a main assumption of governance research that the success of regional energy transitions depends to a large extent on collaborative governance structures. The role of network-based governance in two regions, Lüchow-Dannenberg and Prignitz, is analysed. Alternative ways of understanding the success of energy transitions are discussed with the help of three strands of critical governance literature: debates about ‘socio-materiality’, the often neglected role of power and key individuals. Especially power and the ‘material’ dimension of energy regions may help to explain interregional differences in the success of energy governance.

Keywords: Socio-materiality; Power; Individuals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2016.02.009

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