New Project launched at CSS: “Political Spaces of Climate Governance”

20 July 2023, by CSS

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The research project “Political Spaces of Climate Governance”, led by Senior Researcher Dr. Frank Wendler, has started on 1st July at the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) and is funded by an a 36-month individual grant by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

The project inquires how conditions of policy stability as factors supporting long-term and continuous climate governance interact with recent dynamics of more intense politicization and agenda change effected through exogenous shocks in extant governance processes of the EU and US. As the theoretical foundation of its comparative approach, the project harnesses relevant theories of the policy process to introduce the concept of political space as a term for the variable and potentially contested boundaries and rationales of climate governance, evolving within a policy-related, institutional and discursive dimension. Considering the EU and US as established examples for policy stability and more disruptive and politicized settings of climate governance, the project expects a dynamic of expansion and diversification of political spaces of climate governance in both cases, creating the point of departure for comparing similarities of policy-making approaches in contrasting settings.

More detailed information can be found here.