Franziska Ehnert, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

'This masterful cross-national study opens up the black box of the state and examines how the internal organization, policy styles and coordinative discourses of ''ministerial administrations'' can have a profound effect on the shape of national climate and energy policy. The study demonstrates the strengths of interpretive empirical enquiry (via discursive neo-institutionalism) while also providing some key public policy and administrative insights on why Denmark has progressed further than Germany, Estonia and Poland in transforming its energy system.'--Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents: Part I The study of policy change 1. Introduction: ministerial administrations and policy change in climate policy 2. Ideas, discourses and institutions: a framework of analysis Part II Climate policy in Western Europe 3. Denmark: consensus-seeking in a small, green state 4. Germany: contested policy entrepreneurship in a large state Part III Climate policy in Central Eastern Europe 5. Estonia: technocratic compliance in a small state in transition 6. Poland: policy entrepreneurship in a large state in transition Part IV Comparison and conclusion 7. Lessons on ideas, discourses and institutions Bibliography Index

Franziska Ehnert, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

'This masterful cross-national study opens up the black box of the state and examines how the internal organization, policy styles and coordinative discourses of ''ministerial administrations'' can have a profound effect on the shape of national climate and energy policy. The study demonstrates the strengths of interpretive empirical enquiry (via discursive neo-institutionalism) while also providing some key public policy and administrative insights on why Denmark has progressed further than Germany, Estonia and Poland in transforming its energy system.'--Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents: Part I The study of policy change 1. Introduction: ministerial administrations and policy change in climate policy 2. Ideas, discourses and institutions: a framework of analysis Part II Climate policy in Western Europe 3. Denmark: consensus-seeking in a small, green state 4. Germany: contested policy entrepreneurship in a large state Part III Climate policy in Central Eastern Europe 5. Estonia: technocratic compliance in a small state in transition 6. Poland: policy entrepreneurship in a large state in transition Part IV Comparison and conclusion 7. Lessons on ideas, discourses and institutions Bibliography Index

Franziska Ehnert, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

'This masterful cross-national study opens up the black box of the state and examines how the internal organization, policy styles and coordinative discourses of ''ministerial administrations'' can have a profound effect on the shape of national climate and energy policy. The study demonstrates the strengths of interpretive empirical enquiry (via discursive neo-institutionalism) while also providing some key public policy and administrative insights on why Denmark has progressed further than Germany, Estonia and Poland in transforming its energy system.'--Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents: Part I The study of policy change 1. Introduction: ministerial administrations and policy change in climate policy 2. Ideas, discourses and institutions: a framework of analysis Part II Climate policy in Western Europe 3. Denmark: consensus-seeking in a small, green state 4. Germany: contested policy entrepreneurship in a large state Part III Climate policy in Central Eastern Europe 5. Estonia: technocratic compliance in a small state in transition 6. Poland: policy entrepreneurship in a large state in transition Part IV Comparison and conclusion 7. Lessons on ideas, discourses and institutions Bibliography Index