@techreport{Michaelowa2004German,
abstract = {German wind power development is a technological success story but has involved very
high subsidies. Germany was a latecomer in wind power but specific political
conditions in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed the implementation of the feed in
tariff regime which has characterised Germany ever since. The wind lobby managed to
constitute itself at an early stage and to develop stable alliances with farmers and
regional policymakers. The concentration of the wind industry in structurally weak
regions reinforced these links. With an increased visibility of the subsidies and
saturation of onshore sites in the early 2000s, the lobby has been less successful in
retaining support. The current attempt to develop offshore projects may suffer from less
favourable interest constellations.},
author = {Axel Michaelowa},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {Q42; Q58; Q52; 330; Wind power; interest groups; technological change; Windenergie; Windkraftanlage; Interessenpolitik; F\"{o}rderung regenerativer Energien; Subvention; Erfolgsfaktor; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {296},
title = {The German Wind Energy Lobby : How to successfully promote costly technological change},
type = {HWWA Discussion Paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19268},
year = {2004}
}
