Critical policy mobility literature still does not usually account for transnational opposition dedicated to push back against policy transfer. To address this gap, we examine the case of policy instruments and discourses in support of energy transition and green jobs. In the 2000s, countries...

Since the inclusion of ecological considerations in Germany’s social market economy model in the 1990s and the approval of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (RESA) in 2000, the debate on climate policy in Germany has intensified. Opposition to ambitious targets currently focuses on delaying the...

Germany is known as a leader in energy transition, but the country keeps falling short of meeting stated objectives. While attention has been high on climate change related policy leadership, the competing domestic alliances in the field of energy transition have received scant attention. In...

In deliberation-minded and civil society-oriented scholarship, think tanks are relevant because of their constructive role in policy-related knowledge generation. They are held to establish and enable expertise from diverse stakeholders and multiple angles, and to successfully feed the policy...

This chapter examines the interplays of economic and epistemic power through a historical reconstruction of entrepreneurship ideas in management and economics and a historical social network analysis linking intellectuals and think tanks to foundations and corporations. With a focus on ideas,...

Recoding liberalism: philosophy and sociology of science against planning / Martin Beddeleem -- On skinning a cat: George Stigler on the marketplace of ideas / Edward nik-khah -- The law of the sea of ignorance: F.A. Hayek, Fritz Machlup, and other neoliberals confront the intellectual property...

Recoding liberalism: philosophy and sociology of science against planning / Martin Beddeleem -- On skinning a cat: George Stigler on the marketplace of ideas / Edward nik-khah -- The law of the sea of ignorance: F.A. Hayek, Fritz Machlup, and other neoliberals confront the intellectual property...

Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in crisis. This volume breaks with the caricature of neoliberalism as a simple belief in market fundamentalism to show how neoliberal thinkers developed...

Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in crisis. This volume breaks with the caricature of neoliberalism as a simple belief in market fundamentalism to show how neoliberal thinkers developed...