2013/08/30 by Florian Kern, Caroline Kuzemko, Catherine Mitchell · 4 citations
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Political and Economic history of UK and US #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
paper · doi:10.1332/030557312x655765
openalex publication_date 2013/08/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
This paper contributes to the literature on institutional change by creating a framework that both measures and explains policy change. The framework is then applied to UK energy policy from 2000 to 2011 and finds that a policy paradigm change has occurred. Contrary to expectations in the literature, however, the process of change has been informed by multiple narratives and the new governance system is complex and incoherent. The analysis also finds that there has been relatively little shift in how energy systems operate, suggesting shortcomings in a conceptual focus on institutional change over outcomes.