Energy Policy Making in the EU: Building the Agenda (Lecture Notes in Energy Book 28)

The book adopts an innovative analytical approach to agenda setting by not only presenting successful cases in which energy issues were addressed by means of public policy, but by also analyzing failed attempts to make issues part of the European policy agenda. Another outstanding feature of the book is its use of the latest empirical data on a broad range of energy issues. When are energy issues likely to find their way to the agenda of European policymakers? This is the key research question guiding this collection of empirical studies, which will shed light on both successful and unsuccessful attempts to include energy issues in the European agenda. The multi-level political system of the European Union represents a particularly fruitful setting for addressing this question due to the multiple institutional access points it provides for different groups of actors. The book has three key benefits. First, it provides a theory-informed analysis of agenda setting processes in general and in the European Union in particular. Second, it presents an overview of the most important and emerging dimensions on European energy policy, and third, it helps to develop a research agenda for future research in the field. Front Matter....Pages i-x Building the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: An Introduction....Pages 1-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 The EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: Directions and Developments....Pages 21-40 Agenda Dynamics on Energy Policy in the European Council....Pages 41-61 Exporting the Energy Acquis: The External Agenda Shaping Power of the EU....Pages 63-83 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Against All Odds: The Liberalisation of the European Natural Gas Market—A Multiple Streams Perspective....Pages 87-105 Designing Financing Mechanisms for Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources: The Role of the European Commission as an Agenda Shaper....Pages 107-128 The EU Energy Poverty and Vulnerability Agenda: An Emergent Domain of Transnational Action....Pages 129-144 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 The Liberalisation of the Internal Energy Market: Is the EU Dancing at a British Tempo?....Pages 147-165 German Efforts to Shape European Renewable Energy Policy....Pages 167-184 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Shaping the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: The Role of Eastern European Countries....Pages 187-204 Building the Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: Limits of EU-Activism....Pages 205-223 Regulating Hydraulic Fracturing: The Effects of Issue Redefinition....Pages 225-244 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Building the EU’s Energy Policy Agenda: Insights Gained....Pages 247-263