Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland

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

• Contents: Part I The study of policy change 1. Introduction: ministerial administrations and policy change in climate policy 2. Ideas, discourses and institutions: a framework of analysis Part II Climate policy in Western Europe 3. Denmark: consensus-seeking in a small, green state 4. Germany: contested policy entrepreneurship in a large state Part III Climate policy in Central Eastern Europe 5. Estonia: technocratic compliance in a small state in transition 6. Poland: policy entrepreneurship in a large state in transition Part IV Comparison and conclusion 7. Lessons on ideas, discourses and institutions Bibliography Index

'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