Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland

Ideas, Discourses and Institutions

New Horizons in Environmental Politics series

Franziska Ehnert,学院Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

By opening a new dialogue between scholars of public policy and those of public administration, Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland offers a timely contribution to climate policy analysis. This innovative book explores how and why policies are changed or continued by employing in-depth studies from a diverse range of EU countries. Analytical and accessible, this explorative book will be of value to scholars and students of climate policy, public policy and public administration, as well as practitioners and policy-makers.

‘This masterful cross-national study opens up the black box of the state and examines how the internal organization, policy styles and coordinative discourses of “ministerial administrations” can have a profound effect on the shape of national climate and energy policy. The study demonstrates the strengths of interpretive empirical enquiry (via discursive neo-institutionalism) while also providing some key public policy and administrative insights on why Denmark has progressed further than Germany, Estonia and Poland in transforming its energy system.’
– Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia