Shifting winds: Explaining variation in state policies to promote Small-Scale wind energy

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 629-651

  Wiener, Joshua G ^a   Koontz, Tomas M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy policy; Environmental policy; Policy adoption; Policy diffusion; State policy

Indexed keywords

ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY MAKING; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; WIND POWER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957245587     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2010.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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