Advocates or cartographers? Scientific advisors and the narratives of German energy transition

Anna Leipprand, Christian Flachsland and Michael Pahle

Energy Policy, 2017, vol. 102, issue C, 222-236

Abstract: Political debate on energy in Germany has been shaped by two historically opposed discourses, one pushing for a transition to renewables, the other holding on to the status quo. Scientific policy advice (SPA) has been involved in their evolution from the beginning. This paper draws on the Advocacy Coalition Framework and on discourse and narrative theory to study the role of SPA in recent German energy policy. We explore 1) whether scientific advisors have been members of advocacy coalitions, and 2) how their contributions may have interacted with the evolution of the discourses and major narratives. We perform a qualitative text analysis of 50 SPA reports published between 2000 and 2015.

Keywords: Energy transition; Scientific policy advice; Discourse; Narratives; Advocacy coalitions; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.12.021

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