Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework

Prominent conceptualizations of policy coherence for sustainable development focus primarily on the roles intra-governmental processes and institutional interactions in shaping between various agendas policies. These technocratic understandings overlook more political drivers coherence, such as vested interests or ideologies that may encourage hinder efforts to achieve coherence. This paper addresses this gap by drawing comparative politics literature facilitate a understanding It introduces an analytical framework hypothesizing how ideas, institutions, (the three I's) influence at different stages. As such, it includes measures is applied actors whose ideas be served pursuing not article provides example can study two prominent international agendas: Agenda 2030 (incorporating Sustainable Development Goals) Paris Agreement. Overall, argues I's options shape ambition importance given agendas, goals resisting suited assessing divers through being empirical data global national levels.