Understanding policy change through bricolage: The case of Chile's renewable energy policy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Allain, Mathilde; Madariaga, Aldo
• 署名单位: Universidad Mayor
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12453
• 发表日期: 2020
• 关键词: wind power; ideas; PARADIGMS; ADVOCACY; POLITICS

摘要

Chile is a country where path dependency made energy policy change extremely difficult by international standards. However, the country has recently become a renewable energy poster child thanks to a gradual process of policy change. How was this possible? This article contributes to discussions about policy change driven by ideas and to explaining the puzzling case of Chilean energy policy change. It does so by discussing the mechanism of bricolage-the recombination of old and new ideas by policy entrepreneurs-and its capacity to produce policy change in contexts of high path dependency. The article develops the political manifestations and consequences of bricolage and problematizes how actors continue to contest and change ideas' meaning after they have been institutionalized, a key question when analyzing processes of bricolage. The analysis is based on an array of data sources including interviews with key actors, newspaper notes, and legislative proceedings.