The DOI matches its Crossref record; 90 of the 90 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions: Towards a new research agenda
Open accessAbstract
Meeting the climate change targets in the Paris Agreement implies a substantial and rapid acceleration of low-carbon transitions. Combining insights from political science, policy analysis and socio-technical transition studies, this paper addresses the politics of deliberate acceleration by taking stock of emerging examples, mobilizing relevant theoretical approaches, and articulating a new research agenda. Going beyond routine appeals for more ‘political will’, it organises ideas and examples under three themes: 1) the role of coalitions in supporting and hindering acceleration; 2) the role of feedbacks, through which policies may shape actor preferences which, in turn, create stronger policies; and 3) the role of broader contexts (political economies, institutions, cultural norms, and technical systems) in creating more (or less) favourable conditions for deliberate acceleration. We discuss the importance of each theme, briefly review previous research and articulate new research questions. Our concluding section discusses the current and potential future relationship between transitions theory and political science.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage
Porter, P. K., Hall, P., & Soskice, D. (2003) · The Academy of Management Review · doi:10.2307/30040740 · Cited by 7,510
Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways
Geels, F. W., & Schot, J. (2007) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/j.respol.2007.01.003 · Cited by 5,245
Self-citationPolitics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis
Pierson, P. (2004) · doi:10.1515/9781400841080 · Cited by 4,957
The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process
Hajer, M. A. (1997) · doi:10.1093/019829333x.001.0001 · Cited by 4,184
From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems
Geels, F. W. (2004) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/j.respol.2004.01.015 · Cited by 4,098
Self-citationAn advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein
Sabatier, P. A. (1988) · Policy Sciences · doi:10.1007/bf00136406 · Cited by 3,570
Unruh, G. C. (2000) · Energy Policy · doi:10.1016/s0301-4215(00)00070-7 · Cited by 3,304
An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism
(2001) · Varieties of Capitalism · doi:10.1093/0199247757.003.0001 · Cited by 3,083
When Effect Becomes Cause: Policy Feedback and Political Change
Pierson, P. (1993) · World Politics · doi:10.2307/2950710 · Cited by 2,600
The entrepreneurial state: debunking public vs. private sector myths
(2014) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.51-3359 · Cited by 2,297
Cited by
Probabilistic feasibility space of scaling up green hydrogen supply
Odenweller, A., Ueckerdt, F., Nemet, G. F., Jensterle, M., & Luderer, G. (2022) · Nature Energy · doi:10.1038/s41560-022-01097-4 · Cited by 526
Kern, F., Rogge, K. S., & Howlett, M. (2019) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/j.respol.2019.103832 · Cited by 443
The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review
Blondeel, M., Bradshaw, M. J., Bridge, G., & Kuzemko, C. (2021) · Geography Compass · doi:10.1111/gec3.12580 · Cited by 341
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there
Fazey, I., Schäpke, N., Caniglia, G., Hodgson, A., Kendrick, I., Lyon, C., Page, G., Patterson, J., Riedy, C., Strasser, T., et al. (2020) · Energy Research & Social Science · doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101724 · Cited by 281
Metadata
- Authors
- Roberts, C., Geels, F. W., Lockwood, M., Newell, P., Schmitz, H., Turnheim, B., & Jordan, A.
- Venue
- Energy Research & Social Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-10
- Volume
- 44
- Pages
- 304-311
- ISSN
- 2214-6296 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2806155052
- Cited by
- 373
- References
- 90
- FWCI
- 20.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions: Towards a new research agenda. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.erss.2018.06.001
- The paper
- Roberts, C., Geels, F. W., Lockwood, M., Newell, P., Schmitz, H., Turnheim, B., & Jordan, A. (2018). The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions: Towards a new research agenda. Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.06.001
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
