This edited volume compares seven countries in North America and Europe on the highly topical issue of oil and gas development that uses hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” The comparative analysis is based on the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and guided by two questions: First, in each country, what are current coalitions and the related policy output? Second, based on the current situation, what are the chances for future policy change? This book is the first to use a social science approach to analyze hydraulic fracturing debates and the first application of the ACF that is deliberately comparative. The contributions in this book advance our understanding about the formation of coalitions and development of public policy in the context of different forms of government and economically recoverable natural resources.
1. Introduction by Christopher M. Weible, Tanya Heikkila, Karin Ingold,
and Manuel Fischer .- 2. Contours of Coalition Politics on Hydraulic
Fracturing within the United States by Tanya Heikkila and Christopher M.
Weible .- 3. Advocacy Coalitions, the Media, and Hydraulic Fracturing in the
Canadian Provinces of British Columbia and Quebec by Éric Montpetit, Erick
Lachapelle, and Alexandre Harvey .- 4. Hydraulic Fracturing Policy in the
United Kingdom: Coalition, Cooperation and Opposition in the Face of
Uncertainty by Paul Cairney, Manuel Fischer, and Karin Ingold .- 5. The
French Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing and the Attempts to Reverse it: Social
Mobilization, Professional Forums, and Coalition Strategies by Sébastien
Chailleux and Stéphane Moyson .- 6. Advocacy Coalition Politics and
Strategies on Hydraulic Fracturing in Sweden by Daniel Nohrstedt and Kristin
Olofsson .- 7. The Politics of Hydraulic Fracturing in Germany: Party
Competition at Different Levels of Government by Jale Tosun and Achim Lang .-
8. Belief Conflicts and Coalition Structures Driving Sub-National Policy
Responses: The Case of Swiss Regulation of Unconventional Gas Development by
Karin Ingold and Manuel Fischer 9. Assessments and Aspirations by Karin
Ingold, Manuel Fisher, Tanya Heikkila, and Christopher M. Weible.
Christopher M. Weible is Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. Tanya Heikkila is Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. Karin Ingold is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, Switzerland. Manuel Fischer is Researcher in the Environmental Social Sciences department at Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, Switzerland.
