Policy design for sustainable energy and the interplay of procedural and substantive policy instruments
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
6-2023
Abstract
Contemporary research in the policy sciences places effectiveness as the central goal of policy design. This emphasis permeates both micro-level design considerations for specific policy calibrations, as well as more meso-level policy tool and tool mixes. Effective instrument design, therefore, augments the task of looking at individual tools with regard to considering them as tool ‘compounds’ that comprise substantive and procedural means which interact through the process of designing tools and the subsequent tool calibrations. Drawing on the discussion of policy tools, the academic study of environmental policy instruments has thus far proffered several perspectives on how they can individually be distinguished by their different substantive components and categorized based on common governance resources that need to be mobilized to create them. However, it is eventually how well policy tools are able to coordinate the support of common procedural means and how well they align their implementation plans which determine how effectively they work together as a deliberate environmental policy toolkit designed to meet a common aim of sustainability. In line with the growing literature on policy design and multi-component policy means, the author illustrates the notion of such substantive-procedural design compounds, by comparing what is known about the formulation of three classes of energy policies: renewable energy targets or quotas; feed-in tariffs; and net metering or smart grids.
Discipline
Environmental Policy
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy
Editor
H. Jorgens, C. Knill, & Y. Steinebach
First Page
1
Last Page
14
ISBN
9781003043843
Identifier
10.4324/9781003043843
Publisher
Routledge
City or Country
London
Citation
MUKHERJEE, Ishani. (2023). Policy design for sustainable energy and the interplay of procedural and substantive policy instruments. In Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy (pp. 1-14). London: Routledge.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3909
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043843