1st Edition

Climate Agendas and Instability Green Recovery Programs and Policy Change in the EU and US

By Frank Wendler Copyright 2025
152 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the expansion of climate governance frameworks in the EU and US and their re-framing as part of green industrial programs. Addressing research on how vectors of stability and punctuation interact to advance or block policy progress, the book breaks new ground by presenting a theoretical framework suitable to integrate insights of comparative research and “sui generis”... Read more

1 Introduction: new dynamics in climate politics and policy-making

2 Theoretical framework: stability and punctuation in policy-making on climate change

3 European Union: adjustment and expansion of the European Green Deal agenda

4 United States: re-launching climate action through green industrial policy

5 Conclusion: climate agendas and instability in the European Union and United States

Biography

Frank Wendler is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) and Senior Faculty Member (Privatdozent) at the Department for Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg, Germany.