Provincial governments as policy entrepreneurs: an analysis of policy entrepreneurship strategies and challenges for policy implementation
Summary
In order to achieve climate mitigation goals, governments formulate
strategic policies to facilitate the energy transition. In the Dutch planning
context, local governments ultimately have planning authority as they set
the legally binding land-use plan. Therefore, it is a challenge for strategic
energy transition policies to result in local change. Using a windows
approach for local institutional change, this thesis investigates the role of
regional governments as policy entrepreneurs in their endeavours to get
strategic policies implemented. Their strategies and the challenges in
translating those strategies to the local level are analysed. The clean energy
hubs program is used as a case study: a strategic policy led by the province of
Gelderland to roll-out a network of alternative fuels infrastructure. The
findings describe the unique role of Gelderland as a regional government
actor and simultaneously as a policy entrepreneur. By using a combination of
formal and informal strategies, they try to open windows of opportunity on
the local level. However, this is limited by contextual constraints like a
shortage in building land and conflicting land uses.
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