The Emergence of Coalitions in EU Climate Change Policymaking
(2023) UACES 53 Confernece — Location: Belfast (3.September.2023)
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- The EU climate legislative process is characterized as a complex system, in which a variety of policy actors across multiple governance levels coordinate in coalitions with an aim of influencing legislative processes. Several coalitions are evident in EU climate policymaking, such as the nuclear coalition, the Automotive Regions Alliance, and the ‘anti-combustive engine ban club’. Research, however, is currently limited in systematically taking stock of and explaining the emergence of varying coalition types in EU legislative processes. As such, the paper asks under what conditions to different types of coalitions emerge in EU climate legislative processes? The research is designed in two stages and takes an abductive approach, focusing on four EU climate policymaking processes from the ‘Fit for 55 package’. Drawing on interviews, specialized press reports and official EU documents, coalitions are firstly mapped, identified, and characterized through social network analysis tools. Then, qualitative comparative analysis is applied to each coalition type to explain the configuration of conditions under which different coalition types emerge during the processes. This aim of the research is to develop a more nuanced understanding of how EU climate policymaking processes are structured, shedding light on potential prospects of policy change and, more broadly, the democratic legitimacy of EU climate policymaking.
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Crellin, C. (2023). The Emergence of Coalitions in EU Climate Change Policymaking. UACES 53 Confernece, Belfast. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/268234