01612nam a2200181 4500 509580 509580 190515b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Davidescu, Simona 5599 Two steps forward, one step back: renewable energy transitions in Bulgaria and Romania 2018 p.611-625. This article examines renewable energy policy in Bulgaria and Romania (2007–17) and the reasons behind the unexpected rapid growth in renewables followed by a policy reversal. While we find strong formal compliance with EU legislation regarding targets for renewable energy, an examination of institutional change and policy dismantling in both countries finds that this was not supported by a paradigmatic policy change or a transformation of the energy system. Veto players worked to dismantle renewable energy policy once targets were reached. We use insights from the intersection of socio‐technical systems and historical institutionalist literatures to explain policy dismantling in the energy sector. In doing so, we develop a socio‐technical account of renewable policy in Romania and Bulgaria. We show that this is related to the historically conditioned, path‐dependent processes of institutional change, where energy materiality shapes the parameters of political possibility and the costs of policy implementation. - Reproduced. Renewable energy sources - Romania 5600 Hiteva, Ralitsa 5601 Maltby, Tomas 5602 Public Administration Renewable energy sources - Bulgaria ddc AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 383518 IIPA IIPA 2019-05-15 96(3), 2018: p.611-625. AR119733 2019-05-15 AR