Policies on renewable energy at the European and national level of governance: Assessing policy adaptation in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484719304883?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484719304883?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2019.09.024" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.egyr.2019.09.024</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Policies on renewable energy at the European and national level of governance: Assessing policy adaptation in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The European Union defined itself as a global leader in the promotion and development of renewable energy sources. The European Union initiated crucial changes in renewable energy policies in its Member States. This paper presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of policy debate and policy outputs adopted by the European Union and by the Czech Republic over a fourteen-year period (2004–2018). We investigate how the Czech Republic’s domestic policy on renewable energy sources has reacted to EU-level policy norms, strategies and institutional developments. There are different theories used to explain differentiated processes of Europeanization of domestic structures. One of them, the institutionalist approach reveals how the European Union effect is filtered and mediated through pre-existing domestic institutions, rules, norms and political cultures. We demonstrate that Czech policy makers implemented crucial EU-level policy norms to the national legislative framework, but these norms have not been fully internalized by political actors and society. Thus, the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Czech Republic can be considered as a direct effect of policy development at the EU level, not as output of autonomous Czech policy debate. It poses certain risk for the future development of renewable energy sources policy support.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energy Reports

ISSN

2352-4847

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

S1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

548-553

UT code for WoS article

000518455400086

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85073011237