Socio-technical transitions and policy change - Advocacy coalitions in Swiss energy policy

Policies and politics are an integral part of socio-technical transitions but have not received much attention in the transitions literature so far. Drawing on the advocacy coalition framework, our paper addresses this gap with a study on actors and coalitions in Swiss energy policy. Our results show that advocacy coalitions in Switzerland have largely remained stable despite the Fukushima shock. However, heterogeneity of beliefs has increased and in 2013, even a majority of actors expressed their support for the energy transition – an indication that major policy change might be ahead. It seems that in socio-technical transitions, changes in the policy issue and in the actor base also work toward policy change, next to changes in core beliefs. We make suggestions how the advocacy coalition framework can inform analysis and theory building in transition studies. We also present first ideas about the interplay of socio-technical systems and policy systems.

Ballads and songs of Indiana,

Some of the songs have unaccompanied melodies.

Dates and performances of Thomas D'Urfey's plays.

"Intended to confirm, to supplement, and occasionally to correct the information contained in Genest's account of the English stage and in Allardyce Nicoll's histories of the restoration and eighteenth-century drama."

The railway anecdote book : a collection of the best and newest anecdotes and tales, to the present day : selected for the reading of railway passengers.

Printed wrapper.

Alfonso and Claudina; The faithful spouse, or, The hated race.

On cover: In one act.

The C.H.P.A. cook book : choice recipes from the members and friends of Cleveland Health Protective Ass'n /

Includes household hints; samples of menus; table of seasons for foodstuffs; some recipes include wine or liquor as an ingredient; recipes for English, French, and Cuban dishes. Sample recipes: Roast goose, Codfish on toast (Cuban style), Gingerbread pudding.

The artist's technique of violin playing : a new scientific method for obtaining, in the shortest possible time, an absolute mastery of the higher technical difficulties of the left hand and of the bow = Die Künstlertechnik des Violinspiels = La technique d'artiste du violon : opus 12 /

Text in English, German and French.

English humorists of the eighteenth century : Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith /

"With introductions from Thackeray's English humorists'."

The Huth library. A catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings,

"The ... varied collection was especially rich in voyages, Shakespearean and early English literature and in early Spanish and German works. The Bibles ... included nearly every edition especially prized by collectors, and the manuscripts and prints were among the most beautiful of their kind."--Dict. nat. biog.

Malcolm MacColl, memoirs and correspondence,

Includes a number of letters written to Canon MacColl by prominent English churchmen and statesmen.

Acts and anecdotes of authors.

Mode of access: Internet.

Higher mathematics. A text-book for classical and engineering colleges.

"Bibliography ... general works on the history of mathematics in the nineteenth century": p. 568-570.

Canterbury and York series /

Comprises the registers of the various English provinces and dioceses.

Parochial and plain sermons.

"The sermons have republished were...preached at various periods between the years 1825 and 1843."--Pref., signed by the editor, W.J. Copeland, and dated 1868.

Parochial and plain sermons /

"New impression."