Drivers of Energy Transition: How Interest Groups Influenced Energy Politics in Germany [Paperback]

Wolfgang Gr?ndinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, renewables, coal (CCS), and emissions trading. His findings provide evidence that logics of political competition in new German politics have fundamentally changed over the last two decades with respect to five distinct mechanisms: the end of fossil-nuclear corporatism, the new importance of trust in lobbying, green  path dependence, the emergence of a Green Grand Coalition, and intra-party fights over energy politics.

Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Advocacy Coalitions.- The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Power in Germany.- The EEG  Story of an Unlikely Revolution.- Clean Coal (CCS)  A Chance for Climate Protection?.- Emissions Trading: Europes Flagship for Climate Protection.Dr. Wolfgang Gr?ndinger studied Political and Social Sciences at the University of Regensburg, the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and attended the Oxford Internet Leadership Academy. Currently he works as an Advisor on Digital Transformation at the German Association of the Digital Economy (BVDW).

Wolfgang Gr?ndinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, renewables, coal (CCS), and emissions trading. His findings provide evidence that logics of political competition in new German politics have fundamentally changed over the last two decades with respect to five distinct mechanisms: the end of fossil-nuclear corporatism, the new importance of trust in lobbying, green  path dependence, the emergence of a Green Grand Coalition, and intra-party fights over energy politics.

Contents

The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Power in Germany

      The EEG  Story of an Unlikely Revolution

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