ABSTRACT

The expansion of renewables is still dependent on appropriate policy support. Nonetheless, in the wake of the economic crisis, even pioneer European countries have begun to dismantle the set of measures implemented in the past decades. Policy dismantling in the area of renewable energy is a recent phenomenon that has attracted little attention in comparison to the study of the diffusion of support schemes. By focusing on the dismantling of renewable energy policy in Italy, this contribution helps fill this gap and highlights an important aspect of the current politics of energy transition. It shows how interactions between the political economy of the renewable energy sector, policy design, institutional constraints and external events affect policy dismantling. It also demonstrates the role of self-undermining mechanisms and framing effects in the dismantling of renewable energy policy.

摘要

可再生能源的扩张仍取决于适当的政策支持。尽管如此，在经济危机之后，即使是欧洲先驱国家也开始拆除过去几十年实施的一系列措施。可再生能源领域的政策拆除是最近出现的现象，与支持计划扩散的研究相比，很少受到关注。通过关注意大利取消可再生能源政策，这一贡献有助于填补这一空白，并突出了当前能源转型政治的一个重要方面。它展示了可再生能源部门的政治经济、政策设计、制度约束和外部事件之间的相互作用如何影响政策的拆除。