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: Received: 17 May 2024 / Approved: 20 May 2024 / Online: 20 May 2024 (09:29:54 CEST)
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von Malmborg, F. Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideology and the Quest for a Just Transition: Sustainability, Climate Governance and Democracy. Preprints2024, 2024051267. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1267.v1
von Malmborg, F. Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideology and the Quest for a Just Transition: Sustainability, Climate Governance and Democracy. Preprints 2024, 2024051267. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1267.v1
von Malmborg, F. Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideology and the Quest for a Just Transition: Sustainability, Climate Governance and Democracy. Preprints2024, 2024051267. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1267.v1
APA Style
von Malmborg, F. (2024). Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideology and the Quest for a Just Transition: Sustainability, Climate Governance and Democracy. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1267.v1
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von Malmborg, F. 2024 "Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideology and the Quest for a Just Transition: Sustainability, Climate Governance and Democracy" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1267.v1
Abstract
The concept of policy entrepreneurs has gained increasing attention in studies of climate policy and governance since it foregrounds the role of agency in understanding policy change. However, agency of policy entrepreneurs in the policy process is largely political and conceals the power that shapes how public problems and policies are framed and defined. Thus, policy entrepreneurs should be confronted with the challenge of generating legitimacy, accountability and justice of their actions and the implementation of their targeted policy change. Drawing on political-philosophical theories of liberal and deliberative democracy this paper outlines a conceptual framework for critical analytical as well as normative research on strategies and impacts of policy entrepreneurs. Empirical research on the strategies and impacts of policy entrepreneurs in recent policymaking on climate policy and governance in the EU and Sweden identifies several democratic deficits. In all, the paper brings ideology and politics into research on policy entrepreneurs. It is suggested that not only the strategies used, but also the ideologies of actors that use them, is the causal mechanism that links the policy entrepreneurs to the outcomes, and thus if their advocacy will facilitate or hamper a just transition to climate neutrality and sustainability.
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