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Lecture Notes in Energy 28 Jale Tosun Sophie Biesenbender Kai Schulze Editors Energy Policy Making in the EU Building the Agenda Lecture Notes in Energy Volume 28 LectureNotesinEnergy(LNE)isaseriesthatreportsonnewdevelopmentsinthe study of energy: from science and engineering to the analysis of energy policy. The series’ scope includes but is not limited to, renewable and green energy, nuclear, fossil fuels and carbon capture, energy systems, energy storage and harvesting, batteries and fuel cells, power systems, energy efficiency, energy in buildings, energy policy, as well as energy-related topics in economics, management and transportation. Books published in LNE are original and timely and bridge between advanced textbooks and the forefront of research. Readers of LNE include postgraduate students and non-specialist researchers wishing to gain an accessible introduction to a field of research as well as professionals and researchers with a need for an up-to-date reference book on a well-defined topic. The series publishes single- and multi-authored volumes as well as advanced textbooks. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8874 Jale Tosun Sophie Biesenbender (cid:129) Kai Schulze Editors Energy Policy Making in the EU Building the Agenda 123 Editors Jale Tosun Kai Schulze Instituteof Political Science Faculty ofEconomics and SocialSciences Heidelberg University Universityof Potsdam Heidelberg Potsdam Germany Germany Sophie Biesenbender InstituteforResearch Information andQuality Assurance(iFQ) Berlin Germany ISSN 2195-1284 ISSN 2195-1292 (electronic) Lecture Notesin Energy ISBN 978-1-4471-6644-3 ISBN 978-1-4471-6645-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-6645-0 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2014957135 SpringerLondonHeidelbergNewYorkDordrecht ©Springer-VerlagLondon2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexempt fromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformationinthis book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained hereinorforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Printedonacid-freepaper Springer-VerlagLondonLtd.ispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Acknowledgments ThiseditedvolumeoriginatesfromaworkshopheldattheUniversityofMannheim’s CenterforEuropeanSocialResearch(MZES)inGermany,during30–31May2013. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the organisation of the workshop as well as the research project Agenda Definition in European Energy Policy: Actors, Preferences and Strategies. We thank Cornelius Eich,FredericNeuendorf,ChristineStegmannandtheMZESfortheirsupportinthe organisationoftheworkshop.MarcDebus,JohannKöppelandShaunBevandida terrific job in commenting on the draft versions of the chapters. This project was inspiredbytheworkshop“Intra-institutionalPoliticsofEUEnergyPolicy-Making: Landscape-Level Shifts, Discourses and Organizational Cultures” organised by Luigi Carafa and held at Robinson College, Cambridge University, 27–28 April 2012.Thevolumeasawholeadditionallybenefittedfromtheseminaldiscussionat theWorkshop“EnergyPolicyinEurope:UnderstandingAgenda-SettingDynamics” heldattheInternationalConferenceonPublicPolicy,26–28June2013,Instituteof PoliticalStudies,Grenoble.WethankNazmiyeBalta-Ozkan,AndreiBelyiandTina Hunterforparticipatingintheworkshopandprovidinguswithvaluablesuggestions for further improving this project. Finally, we want to express our gratitude to AndreasFleigforafinalsetofcomments,SophieDolinga,FredericNeuendorfand SimonSchaubforformattingthechaptersandJamesFerrellforlanguage-editing. Heidelberg, October 2014 Jale Tosun Berlin Sophie Biesenbender Potsdam Kai Schulze v Contents Building the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . 1 Jale Tosun, Sophie Biesenbender and Kai Schulze Part I Patterns of Agenda Building and Legislative Activities The EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: Directions and Developments. . . . . . 21 Sophie Biesenbender Agenda Dynamics on Energy Policy in the European Council . . . . . . . 41 Petya Alexandrova and Arco Timmermans Exporting the Energy Acquis: The External Agenda Shaping Power of the EU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Kai Schulze Part II The Commission as Policy Entrepreneur Against All Odds: The Liberalisation of the European Natural Gas Market—A Multiple Streams Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Nicole Herweg Designing Financing Mechanisms for Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources: The Role of the European Commission as an Agenda Shaper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 David Jacobs The EU Energy Poverty and Vulnerability Agenda: An Emergent Domain of Transnational Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Stefan Bouzarovski and S. Petrova vii viii Contents Part III Influential Member States The Liberalisation of the Internal Energy Market: Is the EU Dancing at a British Tempo? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Andrea Ciambra and Israel Solorio German Efforts to Shape European Renewable Energy Policy. . . . . . . 167 Robert Henry Cox and Mariam Dekanozishvili Part IV Framing and Reframing Shaping the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: The Role of Eastern European Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Elina Brutschin Building the Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: Limits of EU-Activism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Gerhard Fuchs Regulating Hydraulic Fracturing: The Effects of Issue Redefinition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Jale Tosun Part V Conclusion Building the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: Insights Gained . . . . . . . . . 247 Jale Tosun, Sophie Biesenbender and Kai Schulze Contributors Petya Alexandrova Institute of Political Sciences, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany Sophie Biesenbender Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Berlin, Germany Stefan Bouzarovski SEED, University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester, UK; Department of Economic Geography, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland Elina Brutschin International Relations Department, Webster University Vienna, Vienna, Austria Andrea Ciambra Institut de Dret I Tecnologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Campus UAB–Edifici B, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain RobertHenryCox WalkerInstituteforInternationalandAreaStudies,University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA MariamDekanozishvili DepartmentofPoliticsandGeography,CoastalCarolina University, Conway, SC, USA Gerhard Fuchs Institute for Social Sciences, Sowi VI, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Nicole Herweg Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany David Jacobs Department of Political and Social Sciences, EnvironmentalPolicy Research Centre (FFU), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany S.Petrova SEED,UniversityofManchester,ArthurLewisBuilding,Manchester, UK Kai Schulze Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany ix x Contributors Israel Solorio Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany ArcoTimmermans InstituteofPublicAdministration,CampustheHague,Leiden University, The Hague, The Netherlands Jale Tosun Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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The book adopts an innovative analytical approach to agenda setting by not only presenting successful cases in which energy issues were addressed by means of public policy, but by also analyzing failed attempts to make issues part of the European policy agenda. Another outstanding feature of the boo
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