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Table 3.1
ORGANIZATION OF CASE STUDY CHAPTERS
Section
General heme
Section 1
Case Study Introduction
Section 2
An Overview of Energy in the Case Study Nation
Section 3
History of Wind Power Development in the Case Study Nation
Section 4
Understanding the General Forces for Change (National Landscape)
Section 5
Inluences on Government Policy (the Governance Conduits)
Section 6
Political Inluences on Policy (Regime Characteristics)
Section 7
he Culmination of Inluences (the Policy Conduits)
Section 8
What to Expect Going Forward
whether they come from within civil society, business, politics, academia, or
some other deinable group, have the ability to inluence policy through a
number of mechanisms. herefore, analyzing wind power development pol-
icy cannot be comprehensively carried out without considering how these
stakeholders afect policy.
he fourth and inal step of the
Political SET
analysis, titled the
“Culmination of Inluences,” examines how energy politics and policy
inluence the social, economic and technological spheres. his part relects
heodore Lowi's opposing notion that policy causes politics.
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In this last
stage of the
Political SET
analysis, the inluence that government energy pol-
icy has on shaping the SET landscape is considered. his step also considers
potential social, economic and technological responses to political inluence
and emergent policy. It also lays the contextual groundwork for a conclud-
ing section in every case study chapter, “What to Expect Going Forward,”
that draws from the
Political SET
analysis to speculate on emergent trends
in the given nation. Table 3.1 summarizes the manner in which each of the
case study chapters has been organized.
3.7 TYING THEORY TO THE
POLITICAL SET
MODEL
he preanalytic vision that went into the development of the
Political SET
model is underpinned by an array of well-traveled policy theories. his merits
discussion because the links between the
Political SET
model and prevalent
policy theory suggests that the model is more than just a cross-disciplinary
application of a strategic management model, it also represents an exten-
sion of well-entrenched policy theory to guide policymaking in complex
adaptive markets.
