Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing

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 analyse 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.

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.