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Spatial Transfer of Energy Policy Frameworks
in sub-Sahara Africa for scale up of
Renewable Energy– Policy Learning, Divergence or Convergence
ABS Research Student SymposiumSeptember 2016
Presented by Jeuel JohnPhD Scholar
Outline
Background
Methodology
Limitations
Purpose
Findings
Originality
Implications Questions
Energy Policy Features
Security of Access.Meet Domestic Demand
ECONOMY
Energy Policy
Drivers
Background
Background
Scale up Energy
Capacity
Policy Reforms
DecrepitudeResource
AvailabilityPolitical
Trajectory
Background
26 European Countries
(Germany, Denmark, Spain)
28 developing countries
(Tanzania, Ecuador,
Bangladesh)
Many High &
Low Income
Countries
(Finland,
Ghana)
USA
UK
Italy
Japan
Kyrgyzstan
Chile
South
Korea
Poland
Greece
Ireland
China
India
Lithuania
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Thailand
Feed-in Tariff
Quota
MechanismAuction
System
TGC/REC Market
Rationale
Existing literature on RE policy contains a marginal account of policy transfer and lacks any
focused reference to the conditions under which one country’s
successful policy might be more or less successfully transferable in
another.
“one size will not fit all”
Szarka et al. (2012, p.236)
This empirical gulf underlines the need to investigate how
transferable lessons have been identified and transferred to found enabling policy framework in these
jurisdictions.
Research Questions
ConceptsThe conditions under
which RE policy ideas
travel and institutional
replication occur across
political jurisdictions.
Process
TransferabilityThe conditions under
which one country’s
successful policy might
be more or less
transferable or
successful in another.
StructureIdentify the causal
mechanisms that lead
to the replication of
policy outcomes.
Conditions Lessons
Objectives
Develop an interdisciplinary
evaluation framework to test and potentially
broaden the perspective of policy
transfer and then enhance this
framework using historical
institutionalism
Establish how policy transfer and institutional
replication occur across political
jurisdictions in the RE domain focusing on
selected cases;
Undertake a cross jurisdictional
framework analysis of lesson-drawing and policy transfer in the
RE domain to establish which causal mechanisms lead to
the replication of policy outcomes;
Design Methodology and Approach
Policy TransferThe process, conditions and route that
policy ideas or institutional structures
travel across political jurisdictions to
replicate similar successes in another
political-policy arena
Comparative MethodsPhilosophically, this research relies on an
epistemology that straddles interpretivists
notions and historical institutionalism
ontology steered by comparative
methods
Lessons-DrawingEmpirically, policymakers become
discontent with the status quo in the
policy environment and engage in a
search for new ideologies to articulate
a response to a perceived problem
Historical InstitutionalismTheoretically, institutions and policies
reflect a country’s past and initial policy
choice triggers organisations and policies
that link or propose future choice
– “the notion of path dependency”.
Historical Institutionalism
Evaluation Design and Approach
Dependent Variable
Why actors
engage in policy
transfer
ideological
political
economic
social etc.
Policy outcomesPolicy Transfer
Independent Variable
Source: adapted from Dolowitz (1998, p.176; 2000)
Policy Transfer uncoupled
Dissatisfaction
Understanding the
Source Policy
Context
Transferable
Lessons
Understanding the
Recipient Policy
Context
Contextual differentiation in Historical, Cultural, Institutional,
Political, Environmental, National and Regional Conditions
Four components of Lessons-Drawing
Source: based on author evaluation Rose 1993, 2005
Findings
Policy
Environment is a
Disputed Sphere
Emerging
Political Stability
Shifting
Governance
Regimes
Policy Transfer
Requires
Structured
Institutions
Policies Must Be
Tailored to Local
Context
Unique Design
Features Making
Policy More
Attractive
Governance
barriers hinder
transformation
Scope and Limitations
Contribution
Originality
Inter-disciplinary Explanatory Framework to
account for cross-jurisdictional policy transfer
Sphere of Research that Remains Inadequately
Theorised
First Account Of Policy Transfer and Institutional Transplantation within the Global RE Policy Domain
Conclusion and Significance
Sig
nif
ican
ce This multilevel explanatory
framework for cross-jurisdictional policy transfer will be useful to the wider public policy domain as a means of optimising our understanding of the evolution, architecture and policy deployment strategies as well as a means of improving policy performance.
Co
nclu
sio
n Policymakers from the
most influential institutions at the centre of policy transfer, lessons-drawing and institutional replication, need support and empowerment to successfully navigate the energy governance neighbourhood.
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