TY  - GEN
A1  - Thonig, Richard
A1  - Del Rio, Pablo
A1  - Kiefer, Christoph
A1  - Lazaro Touza, Lara
A1  - Escribano, Gonzalo
A1  - Lechon, Yolanda
A1  - Spaeth, Leonhard
A1  - Wolf, Ingo
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
T1  - Does ideology influence the ambition level of climate and renewable energy policy?
BT  - Insights from four European countries
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - We investigate whether political ideology has an observable effect on decarbonization ambition, renewable power aims, and preferences for power system balancing technologies in four European countries. Based on the Energy Logics framework, we identify ideologically different transition strategies (state-centered, market-centered, grassroots-centered) contained in government policies and opposition party programs valid in 2019. We compare these policies and programs with citizen poll data. We find that ideology has a small effect: governments and political parties across the spectrum have similar, and relatively ambitious, decarbonization and renewables targets. This mirrors citizens' strong support for ambitious action regardless of their ideological self-description. However, whereas political positions on phasing out fossil fuel power are clear across the policy space, positions on phasing in new flexibility options to balance intermittent renewables are vague or non-existent. As parties and citizens agree on strong climate and renewable power aims, the policy ambition is likely to remain high, even if governments change.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 161 
KW  - political ideology
KW  - climate policy
KW  - energy policy
KW  - europe
KW  - european
KW  - Union
KW  - renewable energy
KW  - flexibility
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-577981
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 1
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thonig, Richard
A1  - Del Rio, Pablo
A1  - Kiefer, Christoph
A1  - Lazaro Touza, Lara
A1  - Escribano, Gonzalo
A1  - Lechon, Yolanda
A1  - Spaeth, Leonhard
A1  - Wolf, Ingo
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
T1  - Does ideology influence the ambition level of climate and renewable energy policy?
BT  - Insights from four European countries
JF  - Energy sources, part B: economics, planning, and policy
N2  - We investigate whether political ideology has an observable effect on decarbonization ambition, renewable power aims, and preferences for power system balancing technologies in four European countries. Based on the Energy Logics framework, we identify ideologically different transition strategies (state-centered, market-centered, grassroots-centered) contained in government policies and opposition party programs valid in 2019. We compare these policies and programs with citizen poll data. We find that ideology has a small effect: governments and political parties across the spectrum have similar, and relatively ambitious, decarbonization and renewables targets. This mirrors citizens' strong support for ambitious action regardless of their ideological self-description. However, whereas political positions on phasing out fossil fuel power are clear across the policy space, positions on phasing in new flexibility options to balance intermittent renewables are vague or non-existent. As parties and citizens agree on strong climate and renewable power aims, the policy ambition is likely to remain high, even if governments change.
KW  - political ideology
KW  - climate policy
KW  - energy policy
KW  - europe
KW  - european
KW  - Union
KW  - renewable energy
KW  - flexibility
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2020.1811806
SN  - 1556-7249
SN  - 1556-7257
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
SP  - 4
EP  - 22
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -