Varieties of clean energy transitions in Europe: Political-economic foundations of onshore and offshore wind development

Stefan Ćetković, Aron Buzogány and Miranda Schreurs

No wp-2016-18, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The paper introduces a novel framework for classifying different types of national political economies. It applies the outlined framework to analyse in an historical perspective the development of one mature renewable energy sector (onshore wind) and one infant renewable energy sector (offshore wind) across three major types of European economies. The paper shows that the presence of strategic state-market coordination and the decentralized pluralist polity constitute key enabling factors that drive the development of new renewable energy technologies.

Keywords: Capitalism; Industrial productivity; Renewable energy; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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