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Drivers of Energy Transition

How Interest Groups Influenced Energy Politics in Germany

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Authors:
  1. Wolfgang Gründinger

    1. Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction: What Drives the Energiewende?

    • Wolfgang Gründinger
    Pages 11-40

  3. The Energy Transformation in Germany

    • Wolfgang Gründinger
    Pages 41-51

  4. Theoretical Framework and Methods

    • Wolfgang Gründinger
    Pages 53-94

  5. Actors and Institutions

    • Wolfgang Gründinger
    Pages 95-140

  6. The Nuclear Phase-Out

    • Wolfgang Gründinger
    Pages 141-255

  7. The Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)

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    Pages 257-419

  8. The Carbon Aapture and Storage (CCS) Act

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    Pages 421-464

  9. The European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS)

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    Pages 465-564

  10. Conclusions and Outlook

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    Pages 565-571

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 573-667
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About this book

Wolfgang Gründinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, renewables, coal (CCS), and emissions trading. His findings provide evidence that logics of political competition in new German politics have fundamentally changed over the last two decades with respect to five distinct mechanisms: the end of ’fossil-nuclear’ corporatism, the new importance of trust in lobbying, ’green ’ path dependence, the emergence of a ’Green Grand Coalition’, and intra-party fights over energy politics.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Gründinger

About the author

Dr. Wolfgang Gründinger studied Political and Social Sciences at the University of Regensburg, the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and attended the Oxford Internet Leadership Academy. Currently he works as an Advisor on Digital Transformation at the German Association of the Digital Economy (BVDW).​

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