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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Challenge of Policy Capacity in Biofuels Policy Design
Authors : Robert Ackrill, Adrian Kay
Published in: The Growth of Biofuels in the 21st Century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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A feature of biofuels policies that we have been reminded of in writing this book is the sheer ambition of policy-makers in seeking to establish and drive the rapid and considerable expansion of biofuels production and use. Yet this ambition has another dimension to it: are policymakers in the 21st century capable of such direction of markets? The scale of policy-makers’ ambition runs counter to several decades of debates and literatures on government overload, the shift from government to governance, the hollowed out state and government failure. These concepts reflect changing economic and political relationships, not only domestically but also internationally, as trade barriers come down and economic interdependencies — via increasingly global supply chains — expand. Against this theoretical and empirical background, the capacity of policy-makers to deliver on their promises over biofuels cannot be taken for granted.