Climate change is a key challenge of our times. However, the required decarbonization process
is contested by diverse societal and policy actors competing over the transition pathways. The
proposed research is a case study of the climate policy subsystem in the Czech Republic, a post-communist country with a coal-dependent economy. It employs a policy networks
perspective coupled with the Advocacy Coalition Framework to investigate the evolution of the
subsystem over two layers – inter-organizational interactions and news media discourse – while
tracing whether and how coalition patterns translate into policy outputs. To achieve this aim, the
project addresses three research gaps. First, it focuses on the role of political parties that
mediate between particular societal interests and the adoption of policy outputs. Second, the
research examines the interdependencies of policy change pathways and how they are linked
to specific policy outputs. Third, it provides an analytical framework for evaluating the degree of
policy change.

Sustainable Development Goals

Masaryk University is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to improve the conditions and quality of life on our planet by 2030.

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