7. Conclusions
In this paper I have aimed to provide a comprehensive and
systematic analysis of the forces working for and against the
political sustainability of the UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act. The
Act, along with related issues such as a 2030 decarbonisation target
for the electricity sector, is the subject of heated debate at the heart
of UK climate policy. To bring analytical structure and order to the
events since the passage of the Act, I have applied an approach for
understanding the politics of implementation of public interest
reforms originally developed in the US context by Patashnik (2003,
2008). Despite the fact that the political and institutional context in
the UK differs significantly from that of the USA, Patashnik’s
framework can be usefully applied without amendment, as it uses
as its building blocks quite general concepts from political science.
Its utility here suggests that it might also be applied to explore
successes and failures in climate policy (or related areas such as
7. Conclusions
In this paper I have aimed to provide a comprehensive and
systematic analysis of the forces working for and against the
political sustainability of the UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act. The
Act, along with related issues such as a 2030 decarbonisation target
for the electricity sector, is the subject of heated debate at the heart
of UK climate policy. To bring analytical structure and order to the
events since the passage of the Act, I have applied an approach for
understanding the politics of implementation of public interest
reforms originally developed in the US context by Patashnik (2003,
2008). Despite the fact that the political and institutional context in
the UK differs significantly from that of the USA, Patashnik’s
framework can be usefully applied without amendment, as it uses
as its building blocks quite general concepts from political science.
Its utility here suggests that it might also be applied to explore
successes and failures in climate policy (or related areas such as
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