Socio-technical transitions and policy change - Advocacy coalitions in Swiss energy policy

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 18, Issue , 2016, Pages 215-237

  Markard, Jochen ^a   Suter, Marco ^a   Ingold, Karin ^b,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Advocacy coalition framework; Energy transition; Policy change; Politics; Socio technical change

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; POLICY REFORM; POLITICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84959560409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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