Emergence and Structuring of the Clean Energy Regime Complex

Abstract While many have observed a regime complex for global clean energy governance, research has not yet accorded sufficient attention to the interplay of multiple streams politics that led structuring overlapping governance initiatives and, ultimately, articulation set norms hold this together. To understand these dynamics, article argues with visibly increased agency transnational actors and international organizations, four mechanisms together are likely shape complexity: divergent state preferences, actors, practices intergovernmental interorganizational recognition normative legitimation. Drawing on qualitative analysis policy documents interviews, social network analysis, it studies from 1980 2014 illuminate dynamics. The findings suggest combination can explain evolution nonregime loosely coupled system energy.