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Policy Style and Issue Environment: The Electricity Supply Sector in West Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Stephen Padgett
Stephen Padgett
Affiliation:
European Studies, Loughborough University
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Abstract

This work examines the relationship between policy style and issue environment. Empirical research in the electricity supply sector in West Germany suggests that even at the sectoral level the expectation of a monolithic and static policy style cannot confidently be sustained. This sector displays a dual policy style, the source of which is located in the relationship between state and sector, the structure of interest representation, and ownership / market relations in the sector. Fluctuations in policy style are related to changes in the issue environment. Addressing the structural dimension of issues, the work abstracts the structure and form which issues assume from their substantive content to identify issue anatomy. This concept is deployed in an explanation of changing policy style in the face of a complex of sectoral issues.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 165 - 193
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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