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Fitch-Roy, Oscar, Fairbrass, Jenny 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5292-0720 and Benson, David
(2020)
Ideas, coalitions and compromise: reinterpreting EU-ETS lobbying through discursive institutionalism.
Journal of European Public Policy, 27 (1).
pp. 82-101.
ISSN 1350-1763
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Abstract
Collective political action among divergent interest groups is not always easy. It requires coordination, compromise and, often, the persuasive action of a policy entrepreneur. Coalition strategies are often shaped by participants’ skill in mobilising ideas. Business-environmental coalitions – often considered ‘strange bedfellows’ – have proved to be important in emissions trading policy-making. In 2013, chronically low emissions prices meant that the EU’s climate policy flagship, the EU-ETS, was holed beneath the waterline. But, within two years and against the odds, ambitious reforms were agreed to steady the ship. Crucial to the rescue were the actions of a pro-ETS business lobby, orchestrated by environmentalists. We draw on thirty-two in-depth interviews to construct a discursive institutionalist account of collective interest representation in relation to the reforms. We highlight the ability of policy entrepreneurs to fashion a ‘change-but-no-change’ pro-reform narrative attractive to businesses, despite the fact that such discursive strategies risked marginalising alternative and more disruptive ideas.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | emissions trading,strange bedfellow coalitions,policy entrepreneurship,climate policy,interest representation,energy policy,social sciences(all),sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2019 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2023 13:37 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69449 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13501763.2019.1567573 |
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