Arbeitspapier

Policy convergence: A conceptual framework based on lessons from renewable energy policies in the EU

The literature on policy convergence has identified numerous aspects and possible causal drivers of convergence. We classify and condense these into a comprehensive framework, which is operationalized for support policies for renewable energy sources in the EU. Our analysis advances the conceptual discussion in two ways. First, we demonstrate that conceptual specifications of convergence (e.g., whether to focus on policy targets, instrument design or policy outcomes) rely on normative assumptions. Second, we argue that theories of economic and political convergence processes complement each other: studies of economic convergence are apolitical as they do not aim to explain why states choose or should choose the same policies to solve a given problem. At the same time, economic convergence yields a necessary condition for successful policy convergence. The empirical evidence, in turn, suggests conditional convergence of support policies and renewables shares in the EU, but does not hint at absolute convergence.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: UFZ Discussion Paper ; No. 14/2015

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
economic convergence
policy convergence
renewable energy sources
support policies

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Strunz, Sebastian
Gawel, Erik
Lehmann, Paul
Söderholm, Patrik
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
(wo)
Leipzig
(wann)
2015

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Strunz, Sebastian
  • Gawel, Erik
  • Lehmann, Paul
  • Söderholm, Patrik
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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